Elijah Muhammad / Herbert Berg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berg, Herbert, author.

Series:

Makers of the Muslim world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975.

Elijah Muhammad.

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)--History.

Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.).

Black Muslims--Biography.

Black Muslims.

Islam.

History.

African American Muslims.

United States.

African American Muslims--Biography.

Islam--United States--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 161 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Oneworld Publications, 2013.

Summary:

This Series is devoted to the men and women throughout history who have made a significant contribution to the political, intellectual and religious landscape of the Muslim world. Each title combines first-rate scholarship with a strong emphasis on readability, and will serve as a perfect introduction for laymen and academics alike. In the mid-1930s, Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) was just one of several competing leaders of the embryonic movement begun by the mysterious Wali Fard Muhammad, some of whose followers including Elijah Muhammad believed to be Allah. By the time of his death in 1975, Elijah Muhammad led a movement that 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. This study is ideal for readers interested in uncovering the life and thoughts of a man who, almost four decades after his death, remains by far the most influential American Muslim. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Islam and African Americans 7

African American Muslim slaves and African American religion 7

Ahmadis and the Moorish Science Temple 13

Wali Fard Muhammad 19

Wallace D. Ford 19

Detroit's Allah 20

2 Elijah Poole 25

Racism in the South 25

Racism in the North 29

The Nation of Islam 30

3 The Apostle of Allah 35

A decade of persecution, preaching and prison 35

Two decades of success 38

A decade of decline 46

4 Black Islam 49

The rise and fall of the white race 52

The five principles of Islam 54

Allah and Allahs 54

Black angels and white devils 57

Black prophets 58

Glorious, poisonous, and future books 64

The Last Day and the Fall of America 68

The five pillars of Islam 70

Shahada 70

Salat 71

Sawm 74

Zakat 75

Hajj 76

Dietary regulations 77

5 What Muslims Believe and What Muslims Want 81

Do for self: economic self-sufficiency 87

A land of our own: separation, not integration 90

Protect your women! 93

Be yourself! Black pride 96

6 The Textual Sources of Islam 103

The Sira 103

The Sunna 106

The Qur'an 107

7 Other Muslims 115

Hypocrites 116

American Muslim opposition 120

"Copper-colored" brothers 123

White Muslims 127

Islamic trajectories 130

Warith Deen Mohammed 131

Louis Farrakhan 138.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

185168803X

9781851688036

OCLC:

855200484

Publisher Number:

99959231460