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 ...

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 descendant of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad is asking Washington County officials to honor Muhammad's birthplace with a proclamation and historic marker, part of an effort to recognize the ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- A son of Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad is accusing Antoin "Tony" Rezko of swindling him out of a home, an allegation the indicted businessman strongly denies, according to a ...

At the minimum, here’s what Christians should know. As religious historian Rodney Stark has shown, religions compete. Early in the seventh century AD, Judaism was making inroads in Arabia, but it had ...