→History: What kind of Enzycopedia is this? „ The change for many will be gradual because of lack of formal teaching and imams in the past. Since the Cuban Muslim community is still young many of the Cuban traditions have blended with the new Muslim traditions. With new teachers and a public place to worship more Cubans will be exposed to Islam and the religion will grow“ This hasn’t anything to do with research or I formation, but with anecdotes. Please someone rewrite this to more prof...
Also, evidence pointing to African origins of Islam in Cuba comes from the many Islamic names found by scholars, such as Henry Lovejoy, belonging to these slaves, such as Mohammed, Hausa, and Nupe.<ref name=":22">{{Cite journal|last=Lovejoy|first=Henry|date=2016|title=The Registers of Liberated Africans of the Havana Slave Trade Commission: Implementation and Policy, 1824-1841|journal=Slavery & Abolition|volume=37|pages=23–44|doi=10.1080/0144039X.2015.1117253|s2cid=147609152}}</ref> In 2011, Islam scholars also analyzed the different names found on the records from the Mixed Commission Courts of Havana to identify the names of Muslim and Arabic origin.<ref name=":12"/> It's been reported that there was more than 5,000 Muslims in Cuba before 1959 but most (around 80 percent) emigrated after the [[Cuban Revolution]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=al-Ahari|first=Muhammed Abdullah|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jTVjWTllOGgC&q=islam+outside+the+arab+world+cuba&pg=PA447|title=Islam Outside the Arab World|publisher=Routledge|year=1999|isbn=0-7007-1124-4|editor-last=Westerlund|editor-first=David|location=London|pages=447|chapter=The Caribbean and Latin America|editor-last2=Svanberg|editor-first2=Ingvar}}</ref>
Cuban Muslims learned Islam through embassies of Middle Eastern countries as well as through students coming to study in Cuba from Muslim countries. Islam started to spread among Cubans in the 1970s and '80s. Printed and audio-visual Islamic resources are now almost nonexistent in Cuba. Spanish translation of the Quran and other major Islamic books are not available in the country. The Muslim community of Cuba even lacks educated religious cadres.<ref name="worldbulletin.net">http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=28195{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Islam became gained in popularity while the country endured an economic crisis, and would come to be more organized by the 1990s. Islam was not organized very well in the past because the main worshipers were slaves and they did not have the freedom to make Islam more organized in Cuba. Cuba's government also had problems with accepting Islam as an official religion at first.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mesa|first=Andrea Morales|date=2002|title=EL ISLAM EN LA ACTUALIDAD CUBANA.|url=https://eds-b-ebscohost-com.northernkentuckyuniversity.idm.oclc.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=1079fb04-450b-4fa9-ad77-25688c91b49f%40sessionmgr103|access-date=2020-10-28}}</ref> By the 1990s, the Cuban government was becoming more accepting of public practice. At first, Islam in Cuba was difficult to practice because of the lack of Islam books in Spanish—but with the completion of a mosque in Havana in 2015, it has become easier for people to worship.<ref>{{Citation|last=Chitwood|first=Ken|title=Islam in Cuba|date=2017|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_264-1|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions|pages=1–2|editor-last=Gooren|editor-first=Henri|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_264-1|isbn=978-3-319-08956-0|s2cid=239241399 |access-date=2020-10-28}}</ref> A lot has changed from the time when Muslims in Cuba could have faced consequences because of the government to having their own mosque with teachers. The change for some Muslim Cubans are difficult because they have always eaten pork and used alcohol. The change for many will be gradual because of lack of formal teaching and imams in the past. Since the Cuban Muslim community is still young many of the Cuban traditions have blended with the new Muslim traditions. With new teachers and a public place to worship more Cubans will be exposed to Islam and the religion will grow.<ref>{{Cite web|last=EST|first=Lucy Westcott On 12/27/16 at 5:00 AM|date=2016-12-27|title=Why Cuba's Muslim population is growing|url=https://www.newsweek.com/2017/01/06/why-cubas-muslim-population-growing-535773.html|access-date=2020-10-29|website=Newsweek|language=en}}</ref>
