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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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1939-11-13
Active to: 2014-07-29

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Listeners: 719
Total plays: 1,450

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5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“America represents herself as a Christian nation. ... They profess to be a friend and defenders of all peace-loving and freedom-loving people. The only people we really see that they want to be friends of are themselves and their kind. They are really sincere when they say that they are freedom-loving people. Above all, the White man the world over wants to be free to rule and dominate the aboriginal people.”
“But let them tell you what type of an Apostle or prophet God promised them. Was it a man from some of the enemy colleges and universities with an arm full of degrees coming from these institutions of learning of the enemy?Let them read their scriptures and see what type of man God promised to choose for a last messenger. How many of the prophets in the past were educated men of the civilization in which they were born before the call of God?”

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Key facts

Preceded by: Wallace Fard Muhammad
Succeeded by: Warith Deen Mohammed
Born: Elijah Robert Poole , ( 1897-10-07 ) October 7, 1897, Sandersville, Georgia , U.S.
Died: February 25, 1975 (1975-02-25) (aged 77), Chicago , Illinois , U.S.
Spouse: Clara Muhammad ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1917 ; died 1972 )
Children: at least 23 (8 with his wife, 15 with other women), including Jabir , Warith , and Akbar
Occupation: Leader of the Nation of Islam

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Encyclopedic overview

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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