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Maryam Sharron Muhammad

Black Political Participation by Maryam Sharron Muhammad. The Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History: 1896 to the Present, Paul Finkelman ed.


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AREAS MARYAM SHARRON STUDIED: History

Maryam Sharron was a historian and a scholar. She received her M.A. in History from Howard University and her writing is featured in many publications.

These include the Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History, Africology: Journal of Pan African Studies, The African Diaspora Network Journal, Trans Africa Forum, The Liberator magazine, The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora, The Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and The Black Commentator web magazine.

Maryam Sharron focused her study and work on Africa and the African diaspora, particularly, the African presence in Asia from the Dynastic era to the twentieth century, the African Diaspora to Central Asia and the Caucasus, the African Diaspora in the Americas, Ancient Egypt, Central African kingdoms, Africa and Islam, Africa’s impact upon the Biblical era as well as African cultural survivals within Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu cultures and African Women as maintainers of culture.


Select publications authored by Maryam Sharron Muhammad


  • - Muhammad, Maryam Sharron. “Black Political Participation,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of African American History, Paul Finkelman ed vol 1, p. 93-98. Published in print: 09 February 2009, Published online: 01 December 2009. https://oxfordaasc.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.001.0001/acref-9780195301731-e-46084 https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195301731.013.46084

  • - Muhammad, Maryam Sharron (2008) ""Scattered Africa" in Asia: Evolution in Research," African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter: Vol. 11 : Iss. 1 , Article 9. Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol11/iss1/9

  • - Muhammad, Sharron. Howard University, Washington, DC. ”’Central Asia and the Caucasus: The African Presence” Encyclopedia Of The African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, And Culture, 3 Volumes p.295, edited by Carol Boyce Davies. Available at: https://vdoc.pub/documents/encyclopedia-of-the-african-diaspora-origins-experiences-and-culture-3-volumes-59b6rco0lvj0

  • - Shabazz, Maryam Sharron Muhammad. “Blacks in Portugal.” In Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture, Vol 1 (A-J) and 2 (K-Z), edited by Eric Martone, p. 421–22. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2009 Available at: https://epdf.pub/encyclopedia-of-blacks-in-european-history-and-culture-volume-1-2.html

  • - Muhammad, Maryam Sharron, M.A. "Nancy Prince’s Narrative Compared to the Sidi Saint Mai Mishra," Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.12, no.1, September 2018 , p.236 to p249 (published posthumously). Available at https://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol12no1/12.1-16-Muhammad%20(1).pdf

  • - Master’s Thesis, Howard University, Fifty Thousand Years of African Migration to Asia (2007)