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 ...

The Nation of Islam theology rejected that premise. In his book “The True History of Master Fard Muhammad,” Elijah Muhammad wrote: “If you say the races should be merged, and live together ...

2012: Dixon comptroller Rita Crundwell was arrested on charges of misappropriating more than $30 million in city money. She ...

The unorthodox device becomes, as only poetry can, an illustrative window into early Islam and everyday Arabian life 1,400 years ago. Kahn points out that many of Muhammad's reforms were unique ...