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Roles: musician
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Life in time

The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani · Abbas Kiarostami · Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari · Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghudda · Abd al-Rahman Badawi

Music and its permissibility Muslim minorities under non-Muslim rule

Overview

Karim Salama, born in Arizona to an Egyptian father and an American mother, is an American Muslim country singer. He mixed alt-country with Islamic themes, and one of his songs is "It Is a Journey of Faith". ¹

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islam.museum contributors. “Kareem Salama”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/karim-salama/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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