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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 ...
1951 (age 72–73) Pakistan. Occupations. Author. entrepreneur. imam. producer. Abdul Malik Mujahid (born 1951) is an American imam, producer, author, and non-profit executive. Mujahid has been selected eight times as one of the "World's 500 Most Influential Muslims".
Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, W. D. Fard, Wallace D. Fard, or Master Fard Muhammad, among others, [ 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 ...
Imam (/ ɪˈmɑːm /, Arabic: إمام, imām; pl.: أئمة, a'immah) is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a prayer leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic prayers, serve as community leaders, and provide religious guidance. Thus for Sunnis, anyone can study the ...
Omar Suleiman (imam) Imam Omar Suleiman speaks at UNRWA USA's Gaza 5k fundraising event in Dallas, Texas, 9/28/2024. Omar Suleiman (born June 3, 1986) is an American Islamic scholar and civil rights activist. He is the founding president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research and an adjunct professor of Islamic studies and member of the ...
The Shafi'i school or Shafi'ism (Arabic: ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلشَّافِعِيّ, romanized:al-madhhab al-shāfiʿī) is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It was founded by the Muslim scholar, jurist, and traditionist al-Shafi'i (c.767–820 CE), "the father of Muslim jurisprudence", [ 3 ...
Website. sandala.org. Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958) [ 5 ] is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, [ 6 ][ 7 ] Islamic scholar, [ 3 ][ 8 ] and co-founder of Zaytuna College. [ 2 ][ 9 ] He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world.
v. t. e. Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership ...