The Islam Connection
May, 1980
He sits alone, a solitary figure on a marble dais so spacious it seems to cradle him. He sits pensively, his eyes lowered, as though gazing inward. He is short, somewhat pudgy, this fiercely private, complex 46-year-old man.Before him, seated wall to wall on the vast green carpet of this elegant mosque on Chicago's South Side, members of the largest Moslem community in the Western Hemisphere are awaiting the weekly guidance of their spiritual leader, or imam.In a moment, he will deliver a two-ho...
