Elijah Muhammad
By: Herbert Berg
Series: Makers of the Muslim world; Makers of the Muslim world
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781851688036; 9781780743301
Subjects: University of South Alabama; Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.); African American Muslims; Islam; Black Muslims; Schwarze; Biography; History
Description: In the mid-1930s, Elijah Muhammad was just one of several competing leaders of the embryonic movement begun by the mysterious Wali Fard Muhammad, who claimed to be a prophet of Islam and who had recently disappeared. By the time of his death in 1975, Elijah Muhammad led a movement that may have numbered a few hundred thousand, making him the most powerful Muslim in the United States of America. Even before his death he was overshadowed by the growing legend of Malcolm X, and after his death by the activities of Louis Farrakhan and his own son Warith Deen Mohammed. Each of these men, however, was brought to Islam by Elijah Muhammad. And although Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's son came to reject his idiosyncratic and racial formulation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad was responsible for introducing hundreds of thousands, perhaps even millions of African Americans to Islam. Almost four decades after his death, he remains by far the most influential American Muslim.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-156) and index.
Table of contents: title: Islam and African Americans; title: African American Muslim slaves and African American religion; title: Ahmadis and the Moorish Science Temple; title: Wali Fard Muhammad; title: Wallace D. Ford; title: Detroit's Allah; title: Elijah Poole; title: Racism in the South; title: Racism in the North; title: The Nation of Islam; title: The Apostle of Allah; title: A decade of persecution, preaching and prison; title: Two decades of success; title: A decade of decline; title: Black Islam; title: The rise and fall of the white race; title: The five principles of Islam; title: Allah and Allahs; title: Black angels and white devils; title: Black prophets; title: Glorious, poisonous, and future books; title: The Last Day and the Fall of America; title: The five pillars of Islam; title: Shahada; title: Salat; title: Sawm; title: Zakat; title: Hajj; title: Dietary regulations; title: What Muslims Believe and What Muslims Want; title: Do for self: economic self-sufficiency; title: A land of our own: separation, not integration; title: Protect your women!; title: Be yourself! Black pride; title: The Textual Sources of Islam; title: The Sira; title: The Sunna; title: The Qur'an; title: Other Muslims; title: Hypocrites; title: American Muslim opposition; title: "Copper-colored" brothers; title: White Muslims; title: Islamic trajectories; title: Warith Deen Mohammed; title: Louis Farrakhan.