MCM develops publications that transform historical research, oral histories, photographs, institutional records, and personal memories into lasting resources.
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Muslim History in Maryland
101 Stories of Faith, Struggle, and Belonging
A broad exploration of the Muslim presence in Maryland—from the earliest documented Muslims associated with the era of slavery through the development of organized Muslim communities, masajid, institutions, schools, civic organizations, and contemporary community life.
The project follows Maryland’s Muslim journey through 2026, highlighting individuals, institutions, movements, and milestones that contributed to the community’s development.
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Shining Threads
Stories of Maryland’s Muslim Pioneers and Community Builders
Shining Threads brings together the personal stories of individuals and families whose faith, sacrifice, professional achievement, volunteerism, and community service helped shape Muslim life across Maryland.
These are stories of founders and volunteers, physicians and educators, entrepreneurs and activists, mothers and fathers, elders and young leaders—people whose individual lives became threads in a much larger community tapestry.
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Gumnaam Sipahi
A Forgotten Soldier of the Pakistan Movement
Haji Syed Sajjad Husain never commanded a rally, never signed a treaty, and never appears in the history books that record how Pakistan came to be. He was a small-town worker in Shahpur and Fatehpur — a man of trade, faith, and family — who gave the Pakistan Movement his time, his household, and his loyalty, and asked for nothing in return.
Researched and written in Urdu by Dr. Syed Sajid Husain and rendered into English by another grandson, Syed Abid Husain, it is a portrait of an ordinary life lived at the center of an extraordinary moment. Both editions are free to read here.
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The Generation
An Institutional History of the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB), 1967–2026
The Generation is the institutional history of the Islamic Society of Baltimore, one of the oldest Muslim institutions in Maryland. It runs from the living-room gatherings of the late 1960s to the community ISB serves today: the borrowed halls, the Shaffer Hall years, the land bought on 29 June 1981, the building of Masjid Al-Rahmah, and the presidents, imams, and families who carried each of those steps.
Drawn from oral histories, archival documents, and published sources, it sets down the names, decisions, and sacrifices of the founders and of those who carried the work forward.