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n the cosmic soup that made up W.D. Fard’s hodgepodge of religious influences, scholars have noted the impact of the Theosophical Society to varying degrees. The Theosophical Society was a late nineteenth century esoteric religious movement founded by “Madame” Helena Blavatsky, a Russian American mystic and writer. Theosophy grew out of the [...]
Knight, Michael Muhammad. The Supreme Wisdom Lessons: A Scripture of American Islam. Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox, 2024. Hardcover. List Price: $92.83. In a Muslim world marred by mediocrity, rumination, and regurgitation, Michael Muhammad Knight (b. 1977) shines brightly as one of the most original and creative Islamic writers of our times. [...]
he modern Western narrative would have us believe that freedom of thought and expression are ideals that are the envy of those living under authoritarian rule. While these ideals are indeed taken seriously in many spheres of life, the West has a nasty track record of curtailing the very products that it has claimed to[...]
Niccolò Machiavelli (d. 1527 AD), an Italian Renaissance diplomat, is most noted for The Prince, but his real masterpiece is his Discourses. Machiavelli wrote The Prince as a treatise to Lorenzo de’ Medici, the Duke of Urbino, and it was not published until five years after Machiavelli’s death. Machiavelli wrote the treatise hastily because he[...]
Anwit Shahi analyzes the online debates between factions of the Muslim community[...]
On the 21st of the month of Ramadan, in 40 AH (661 AD), the caliph, judge, warrior, ascetic, and sage ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib succumbed to his fatal wounds. He was the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muḥammad, and he is considered the fourth Rashidun caliph by Sunni Muslims and the first Imam by[...]
“He began teaching us the knowledge of ourselves, of God and the devil, of the measurement of the earth, of other planets, and of the civilization of some of the planets other than earth. He measured and weighed the earth and its water; the history of the moon, the history of the two nations, black[...]
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Was W.D. Fard, the founder of the twentieth century Nation of Islam, a Turkish immigrant to the United States? Researchers like Edward C. Curtis, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Richard Foxe, and even the late Akbar Muhammad (the son of Elijah Muhammad) [...]
n a 2019 article entitled “The Grandson of George and Temporary Marriage”,[1] Ammaar Muslim analyzed the jurisprudential views of ʿAbd al-Malik b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Jurayj (d. 767 AD) – commonly known as Ibn Jurayj. Ibn Jurayj was an early Meccan [...]
ohn Muhammad (1910-2005 AD) was the “blood and spiritual brother” of Elijah Muhammad,[1] who was the leader of the black nationalist Nation of Islam (NOI) from 1934 to 1975. Along with members of his family, John Muhammad converted to the NOI in [...]