Following the narrative of Islam’s journey from tribal origins to world religion, scholar John Tolan offers those new to the ...

Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Black Muslim movement, concluded the tutorial of his designated successor, Elijah Muhammad, in 1934. That was the year Fard, who under the Nation of Islam’s ...

Black historical items related to the founding of the Nation of Islam and the Hon. Elijah Muhammad have become the sources of a dispute. A planned auction in Dallas, Texas that entails items from the ...

Assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Central Florida, Michael Muhammad Knight is the author of almost a dozen books about Islam, both fictional and nonfiction. In his latest ...

Taking over from the organization's founder, Elijah Muhammad helmed the Nation of Islam during a period of limited growth. Malcolm X's arrival in 1952 ushered in a time of dramatically increased ...

A Feb. 9 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a man delivering a lecture with foreboding music playing in the background. “Very few people realize it was the Catholics that started Islam.

Dozens of Pakistani lawmakers rumbled through the streets of Islamabad on Thursday with one voice: Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. Death to the blasphemers. The “blasphemers” in ...