His militant proposals—a violent revolution to establish an independent Black nation—won Malcolm X large numbers of followers as well as many fierce critics. Due primarily to the efforts of Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam grew from a mere 400 members at the time he was released from prison...
* The Nation of Islam teaches that W.D. Fard, the mysterious founder of the sect who dropped from sight in 1934, was God incarnate. Mainstream Islam rejects the idea that God--Allah in Arabic--has ever taken human form, unlike Christianity’s belief in the divinity of Jesus. To associat...
political theology; religion; revivalism; Islamism; neo-traditionalism; fundamentalism; Mawdudi; Iqbal; Azad; Madani Whereas secular nationalism emerged in the West as an indigenous and therefore organic development, its rise in the Muslim world was predicated upon the importation of Western models. ...