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EARLY ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
(ISLAM.) Ali, Noble Drew. The Moorish Science Temple of America. The Divine Constitution and By-Laws. Broadside with letterpress text and a central photographic portrait of Ali, 12x9 inches; matted. Chicago: Moorish Science Temple, [1928]
- Notes: Noble Drew Ali, born Timothy Drew in North Carolina in 1886, founded his first temple in Newark, New Jersey in 1923. Though he claimed inspiration from Marcus Garvey and the United Negro Improvement Association, Ali believed that all "colored peoples," including Asiatics, Turks, Arabs, Latin Americans, etc. were descended from Moors, and therefore Muslim. Garvey was somewhat skeptical of Ali, believing that the Arabs were white and therefore oppressors of blacks. When Ali died in 1929, a group of his former followers joined with W. D. Fard in Detroit, and formed the first Temple of Islam in America, which was later led by Elijah Muhammad.
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