An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (5) ◽  
pp. 1719
Author(s):  
Richard Brent Turner ◽  
Elijah Muhammad ◽  
Claude Andrew Clegg III
Keyword(s):  
Elijah Muhammad

Black Muslim Theology and the Classical Islamic Tradition

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Elijah Muhammad ◽  
Black Muslim

Elijah Muhammad declared unapologetically that “God is aman.” This anthropomorphist doctrine does violence to modern normative Islamic articulations of tawú¥d (monotheism), the articulations of which involve God’s “otherness” from the created world. The Nation of Islam (NOI), therefore, has been the target of polemics from Muslim leaders who, from within and without the United States, have declared its irredeemable heterodoxy. But in premodern Islam, heresy was in the eye of the beholder and “orthodoxy” was a precarious and shifting paradigm. This paper attempts to, in the words of Zafar Ishaq Ansari, “examine how the ‘Nation of Islam’ fits into the framework of Islamic heresiology.”

In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam.

1997 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
William L. Van Deburg ◽  
Mattias Gardell
Keyword(s):  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Elijah Muhammad

The Royal Family

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ula Yvette Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Personal Life ◽  
Nation Of Islam ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Elijah Muhammad ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines the complicated Royal Family, Elijah and Clara Muhammad and their daughters, Ethel Sharrieff and Lottie Muhammad. By the 1960s the Nation of Islam had blossomed into a financially rich organization with an expansive membership. Elijah Muhammad secretaries were central to the organizations communication efforts. Some of the secretaries, Evelyn Williams, Lucile Rosary and Tynnetta Deanar, for example, were also the secret wives of Elijah Muhammad. The tensions produced by these relationships and Minister Malcolm X’s role in exposing Elijah Muhammad’s personal life beyond the membership signal the difficulties in maintaining a patriarchal movement. How polygamy impacted rank and file women, and Mrs. Clara Muhammad, conclude the chapter.

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