Sufi Abdul Hamid and Mme. Fu Futtam

Interview with Shaykh Mustafa Abdullah

The 4 parts of Zaid Ansari's interview with Shaykh Mustafa Abdullah.

Here's the video description:

Salaam Alaykum. I present this video as the first in a four part interview with Shaykh Mustafa Abdullah. He is an eighty-nine year old African American Muslim who reverted to Islam in 1959. He is also one of the early pioneers of the Dar Al Islam Movement under Shaykh Daoud Faisal (1891 to 1980)-May Allah have mercy on him. Please stay tuned to this You Tube Page for the following three parts. Also please visit my site: www.zaidansari.com and join my Newsletter list for further updates.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

A History of White American Muslims -- in Documents: #8

To supplement the September 14 release of my new book, "A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975" , over the last 2 months (Aug.-Sept.) I have been releasing on this blog some of the documents I have collected related to the history of White American converts to Islam. These documents, whose sources will be discussed in the book, will include selections from personal letters; articles and advertisements from old, little-known books, journals, and magazines; government files; and miscellaneous items.

See the previous document releases: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7

The book is available through both the publisher's page and the Amazon page. If you are interested in the book but are not able to purchase it, ask your librarian to order a copy.

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And Watch the book's promo video here

1939 -- Kalifat No. 5 (North American Kalifat) 

flyer reprint

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A History of White American Muslims -- in Documents: #7

To supplement the September 14 release of my new book, "A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975" , over the last 2 months (Aug.-Sept.) I have been releasing on this blog some of the documents I have collected related to the history of White American converts to Islam. These documents, whose sources will be discussed in the book, will include selections from personal letters; articles and advertisements from old, little-known books, journals, and magazines; government files; and miscellaneous items.

See the previous document releases: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6

The book is available through both the publisher's page and the Amazon page. If you are interested in the book but are not able to purchase it, ask your librarian to order a copy.

View the GoogleBooks preview here

And Watch the book's promo video here

1956 Moslem American Citizens Union Publicity Release

Download the pdf here

A History of White American Muslims -- in Documents: #6

To supplement the September 14 release of my new book, "A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975" , over the last 2 months (Aug.-Sept.) I have been releasing on this blog some of the documents I have collected related to the history of White American converts to Islam. These documents, whose sources will be discussed in the book, will include selections from personal letters; articles and advertisements from old, little-known books, journals, and magazines; government files; and miscellaneous items.

See the previous document releases: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5

The book is available through both the publisher's page and the Amazon page. If you are interested in the book but are not able to purchase it, ask your librarian to order a copy.

View the GoogleBooks preview here

And Watch the book's promo video here

Louis Selim Glick -- Military Intelligence Division records

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Muhammad Abdullah

Speaking of photos of people who are suspected of being W.D. Fard, I would like to bring up one issue. I put the following photo, which I found in an old newspaper, on my blog on December 6, 2011:

To my surprise, some people thought that this was Fard, and rumors started circulating. However, this is in fact a photo of Sayid Muhammad Wajih Gilani, a Turkish-born Muslim who briefly served as the Sheikh ul-Islam of the Philippines. Gilani visited the US in 1915 and died in May 1916.


I discuss him in briefly in my article on Satti Majid and in my book A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Vol. 1


Now, as far as new evidence about Fard's possible pre-NOI activities and identity, I certainly have not given up looking. And I believe I may have found something, but I won't post anything until I can verify it better.


In the meantime, you can always check out my article on Lucius Lehman, the Muslim "Mullah of San Quentin," who was probably very influential for San Quentin's Garveyite black prisoners in the 1920s, right before Wallace Ford started serving his sentence there.

A History of White American Muslims -- in Documents: #5

In anticipation of the September release of my new book, "A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1: White American Muslims before 1975" , over the next 2 months (Aug.-Sept.) I will be releasing on this blog some of the documents I have collected related to the history of White American converts to Islam. These documents, whose sources will be discussed in the book, will include selections from personal letters; articles and advertisements from old, little-known books, journals, and magazines; government files; and miscellaneous items.

See the previous document releases: #1, #2, #3, #4

Pre-orders for the book are available through both the publisher's page and the Amazon page. If you are interested in the book but are not able to purchase it, ask your librarian to pre-order a copy.

View the GoogleBooks preview here

And Watch the book's promo video here

1947 State Department Records for William Abdur Rahman Lutz,

founder and Secretary of the Council of the

American Muslim Congress 

Download the full 13-page report here

1971