nation of islam in English

noun
1
an exclusively black Islamic sect proposing a separate black nation, founded in Detroit circa 1930. It was led from 1934 by Elijah Muhammad (1897–1975) and came to prominence under the influence of Malcolm X. Its current leader is Louis Farrakhan.

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1. After winning the heavyweight title, Clay became a member of the Nation of Islam.

2. His Nation of Islam represented a cultish offshoot of a venerable American movement, black nationalism.

3. The purpose of the Nation of Islam was to rouse the black man from his slumber.

4. The Nation of Islam (NOI), found in 19 is the most famous community in the black muslims.

5. With the death of its leader, Elijah Muhammad, in 19 the Nation of Islam began a transition.

6. Rwaramba also claims the Nation of Islam gained a growing influence over the singer's financial and personal affairs.

7. In 19 Fard mysteriously disappeared and the apostle, now called Elijah Muhammad, took command of the Nation of Islam.

8. He soon published articles about the Nation of Islam and Malcolm in Reader's Digest and The Saturday Evening Post.

9. The Nation of Islam and its most famous adherent, Malcolm X, preached a message of self-reliance and racial separatism.

10. One gunman, Nation of Islam member Talmadge Hayer (also known as Thomas Hagan), was beaten by the crowd before police arrived.

11. The purpose of the Nation of Islam was to rouse the black man from his slumber. (Armed spaceships come into it, too.) Such were the teachings of Wallace D.

12. In 19 he received a letter from his older brother Philbert saying that he and others in the family had converted to the Nation of Islam—"a program designed to help black people."

13. According to Shaheed Hamid, the mosque's imam, the mosque was established in 1968 as part of the Nation of Islam, an order that was then the most prominent Muslim group in the United States.

14. Each black public figure who converts to Islam or accepts Nation of Islam support creates an added impetus for other blacks to change religions , a pattern that has also emerged in other Western countries .

15. Converts most likely turn anti - American when they adhere to either of two specific forms of Islam : either the Nation of Islam ( NoI , the black - nationalist sect that originated in Detroit in 1930 ) or militant Islam ( mostly imported from the Middle East and South Asia ) .