Warith Deen Mohammed
Politician
1933 – 2008
Who was Warith Deen Mohammed?
Warith Deen Mohammed, also known as "W. Deen Mohammed" or "Imam W. Deen Muhammad", was a progressive African American Muslim leader, theologian, philosopher, Muslim revivalist and Islamic thinker who disbanded the original Nation of Islam in 1976 and transformed it into an orthodox mainstream Islamic movement, the World Community of Al-Islam in the West which later became the American Society of Muslims. He was a son of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam from 1933 to 1975.
He became the national leader of the Nation of Islam in 1975 after his father’s death. As a result of his personal studies and thinking, he had led the vast majority of the members of the original NOI to mainstream, traditional Sunni Islam by 1978. With this merger, he oversaw the largest mass conversion to Islam in the history of the United States of America. He rejected the previous deification of Wallace Fard Muhammad, accepted whites as fellow-worshippers, forged closer ties with mainstream Muslim communities, and introduced the Five Pillars of Islam into his group's theology.
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- Born
- Oct 30, 1933
Hamtramck - Also known as
- Wallace D. Muhammad
- W. Deen Mohammed
- Imam W. Deen Muhammad
- Wallace Delaney Muhammad
- Wallace Deen Mohammed
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Islam
- Sunni Islam
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Muhammad University of Islam
- Died
- Sep 9, 2008
Chicago
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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