THE 500 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSLIMS - CESD

Arts and Culturemos defMos Def—born Dante Terrell Smith—is a hip-hop artist who has recently become more popularfor his acting career, which garnered him Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. He is noted forhis stance against the misinterpretation of the Qur’an.zakariya, mohamedAn engineer by training, Mohamed Zakariya is now an award-winning Arabic calligrapher whosework is displayed all over the United States. In 2001, he designed the ‘Eid holiday stamp for theUnited States Postal Service and in 2002, he was featured in the PBS documentary ‘Muhammad:Legacy of a Prophet’.160