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The Black Album

الألبوم الأسود

Hanif Kureishi's novel of a British-Pakistani youth torn between 90s music culture and Islamists in London.

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1980199020002010

LiteratureMuslim minorities under non-Muslim ruleChildren and youth

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islam.museum contributors. “The Black Album”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/al-album-al-aswad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The Marvel miniseries on Kamala Khan — a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager in Jersey City who gains powers; Marvel's first Muslim lead, portraying mosque life, prayer and Eid.