The Life of Omar Ibn Said

Legacy

In 1991, a mosque in Fayetteville, North Carolina renamed itself Masjid Omar ibn Sayyid in his honor.[15]

The opera Omar, inspired by ibn Said and written by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, had its debut at the Sottile Theater during the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina on May 27, 2022.[16][17] Omar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music on May 8, 2023.[18][19]


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