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Islam portal Politics portal. v. t. e. The Nation of Islam ( NOI) is a religious organization in the United States founded by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A black nationalist organization, the NOI focuses its attention on the African diaspora, especially on African Americans. While describing itself as Islamic, its religious tenets, though ...
The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a black nationalist religious group founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. While it identifies itself as promoting a form of Islam, its beliefs differ considerably from mainstream Islamic traditions. Scholars of religion characterize it as a new religious movement.
Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader, black separatist, and self-proclaimed Messenger of Allah who led the Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1933 until his death in 1975. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Muhammad was also the teacher and mentor of Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Muhammad Ali, and ...
Nation of Islam. Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard or Master Fard Muhammad[ 3] ( / fəˈrɑːd /; [citation needed] reportedly born February 26, c. 1877[ 4][ a] – disappeared c. 1934 ), was the founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an ambiguous background and several aliases, and ...
The Nation of Islam is reaching out to metro Detroit's sizable Arab American communities, as it has before, said Troy Muhammad. The last time Farrakhan delivered a speech at an Arab American ...
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (born January 12, 1948 – February 17, 2001) was an African-American Muslim minister and activist who became a prominent figure in the Nation of Islam and later the New Black Panther Party. After a racially inflammatory 1993 speech at Kean College, Muhammad was condemned and removed from his position in the Nation of ...
1992 – Harold Brackman, Jew on the Brain: A Public Refutation of the Nation of Islam's The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews. The booklet was published privately by Bill Adler, the former director of publicity for Def Jam Recordings, after learning that the rapper Ice Cube had endorsed The Secret Relationship. [22]
Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad; [ a] October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008), also known as W. Deen Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Muhammad and Imam Warith Deen, was an African-American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist, and Islamic thinker. He was a son of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam from ...