At the 2020 Grammys, DJ Khaled announced that he had just welcomed a baby boy named Alam (which means “the world”) — but he’s far from the only fan of the beautiful Arabic name with Muslim roots.

Out of the world’s nearly 2 billion Muslims, only about 4 million are Americans. So it’s not surprising that many of us often assume we have little relevance to the immediate concerns, let alone ...