Elijah Muhammad
Also known as Elijah Mohammed
American religious leader (1897-1975)
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- Born
- 1897
- Works
- 44
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- The supreme wisdom
- How to eat to live
- 100 Answers to the Most Uncommon 100 Questions
- Black Power
- Blood-Bath
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Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole, later Elijah Karriem; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was an American religious leader who led the Nation of Islam from 1933 until his death in 1975. Under his leadership, the Nation of Islam grew from a small Detroit-based movement into a nationwide organization with tens of thousands of members in the United States during the civil rights movement. The group promoted black nationalism and a distinctive theology which taught that white people were a race of "devils" created by an evil black scientist named Yakub, and that there were multiple gods, each a black man named Allah. Elijah Muhammad taught that he himself was the messenger of these gods.
In the 1930s, Muhammad formally established the Nation of Islam, a religious movement that originated under the leadership and teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad and that promoted black power, pride, economic empowerment, and racial separation. Muhammad taught that Master Fard Muhammad is the 'Son of Man' of the Bible, and after Fard's disappearance in 1934, Muhammad assumed control over Fard's former ministry, formally changing its name to the "Nation of Islam".
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1897 births1975 deaths20th-century African-American people20th-century American clergy20th-century American non-fiction writers20th-century Islamic religious leadersActivists for African-American civil rightsAmerican anti–World War II activistsAmerican members of the clergy convicted of crimesAmerican Muslim activistsAmerican prisoners and detainees