Warith Deen Mohammed | |
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| Leader of the Nation of Islam | |
| In office February 26, 1975 – 1976 | |
| Preceded by | Elijah Muhammad |
| Succeeded by | Louis Farrakhan |
| Leader of the American Society of Muslims | |
| In office 1976 – August 31, 2003 | |
| Director of The Mosque Cares | |
| In office 2003 – September 9, 2008 | |
| Succeeded by | Wallace D. Mohammed II |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Wallace D. Muhammad October 30, 1933 Hamtramck, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | September 9, 2008 (aged 74) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Resting place | Mount Glenwood Cemetery, Thornton, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Children | 8 |
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| Alma mater | Muhammad University of Islam |
| Occupation | Imam, religious reformer, Muslim scholar, businessman |
Warith Deen Mohammed (born Wallace D. Muhammad;[a] October 30, 1933 – September 9, 2008), also known as W. Deen Mohammed, Imam W. Deen Muhammad and Imam Warith Deen, was an African-American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist, and Islamic thinker.
He was a son of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam from 1933 to 1975.[4][5] In 1975, upon Elijah Muhammad's death, he became the Nation of Islam's national leader (Supreme Minister).[6][7]
In 1976, he disbanded the original Nation of Islam (NOI) and transformed it into an ostensibly orthodox and mainstream Islamic movement.[8] He rejected the previous deification of Wallace Fard Muhammad, accepted whites as fellow-worshippers, forged closer ties with mainstream Muslim communities, and introduced the Five Pillars of Islam into his group's theology.[3][9] This organization was called the Bilalians (1975), World Community of Al-Islam in the West (1976–77), American Muslim Mission (1978–85),[10] and finally the American Society of Muslims.
Splinter groups which resisted these changes were formed after Elijah Muhammad's death, particularly under Louis Farrakhan, who would revive the name Nation of Islam (from Final Call) for his organization in 1978. Farrakhan's NOI and the previous Final Call claim that they are direct continuations of the pre-1975 NOI and the pre-1975 Final Call.[3][11]
- ^ Muslim Journal, Vol. 15, No. 19, December 22, 1989
- ^ Wall Street Journal, Vol. CIV, NO. 6, Friday, July 9, 1999
- ^ a b c Esposito, John (September 10, 2008). "W.D. Mohammed: A Witness for True Islam: On Faith". The Washington Post.
- ^ "The Emergence of Islam in the African-American Community" Archived February 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Warith Deen Mohammed", This Far By Faith, Public Broadcasting Service.
- ^ Lincoln, C. Eric. (1994) The Black Muslims in America, Third Edition, William B. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company) page 263
- ^ Fraser-Rahim, Muhammad. America’s Other Muslims: Imam WD Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam. Lexington Books, 2020.
- ^ See Al-Islam, The Islamic Movement Journal, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 19-20, July–August 1975; vol 4. no. 6, p. 10-12, Nov-Dec, 1975; Unrecanted Statements, 1990; The Truth Regarding Warith Deen Mohammed, 1993
- ^ "Conversion of the Muslims", TIME, 14 Mar 1977
- ^ See Bilalian News/A.M.Journal, 1976–1985
- ^ Lincoln, C. Eric. (1994) The Black Muslims in America, Third Edition, William B. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans Publishing Company) page 274
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