Sh Mustafa Briggs is an Islamic historian, author, and specialist in Arabic and Islamic texts. He converted to Islam at 13 and went on to study across West Africa, Mauritania, Morocco, and Al-Azhar University in Cairo. 

Today he's a leading voice for uncovering the hidden, forgotten, and erased stories of Islamic history, having delivered over 100 lectures across 50+ universities worldwide and authored two books – Beyond Bilal and Islam and the Making of the Modern World.

In this episode, he breaks down the lost ring of the Prophet ﷺ and the fitna that followed, the Black poets and scholars who shaped Islamic civilization, and the theory that Muslims discovered America 200 years before Columbus ever set sail.

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0:00 Introduction

2:07 How Mustafa uncovers hidden Islamic history

4:23 The lost ring of the Prophet ﷺ

6:44 Why anti-Blackness exists in Muslim history

12:44 The scholars who defended Black Muslims

14:01 The Black Sahaba you've never heard of

15:36 Ubada bin Samit and the opening of Palestine

17:53 Why race matters in Islamic history

23:28 Crows of the Arabs: the Black poets of Arabia

26:24 Antara & Abla: the Romeo and Juliet of Arabia

29:43 Did Muslims discover America before Columbus?

33:33 The 2,000 ships that vanished

36:51 Mustafa's journey to Islam at 13

40:19 Studying across West Africa, Mauritania & Cairo

44:14 What's next for Mustafa Briggs