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Also known as: American Muslim Mission, Black Muslim movement, Muslim American Society, World Community of Al-Islam in the West
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J. Gordon Melton
Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Institute for Studies in Religion, Baylor University; Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion, Woodway, Texas. Author of La Chiesa...
J. Gordon Melton
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1930 - present
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Nation of Islam, African American movement and organization, founded in 1930 and known for its teachings combining elements of traditional Islam with Black nationalist ideas. The Nation also promotes racial unity and self-help and maintains a strict code of discipline among members. Islam was brought to the United States by enslaved African Muslims, and it retained a real if minuscule presence in the country throughout the 19th century. It reemerged at the beginning of the 20th century as a result of the efforts of the Aḥmadiyyah movement, an unorthodox sect founded in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (c. 1839–1908), and ...(100 of 1129 words)

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