| 词条 | Wakeel Allah |
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Wakeel Allah is an American author, historian and a member of the Nation of Islam. He is best known for his books In the Name of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters Vol. 1, and his subsequent book In the Name of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters Vol. 2. LifeWakeel Allah was born and raised in Plainfield, NJ and joined the Five-Percent Nation as a freshman at Plainfield High School. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta and became a prominent advocate of 5 Percenter and Nation of Islam teachings and was responsible for recruiting distinguished members to both movements. Wakeel Allah and Dr. Wesley Muhammad founded the organization the Allah Team which is a society of Islamic educators, activists, artists and cultural influencers. Wakeel Allah is also a member of the Nation of Islam under the leadership of Minister Louis Farrakhan.[1] CareerWakeel Allah has been viewed as a premiere historian of the Five Percent Nation and Nation of Islam movements. His published works include The History of the Nation of Islam Vol. 1: The Pioneer Years (1930–1950), "Our Story: A Black Muslim Anthology of NOI Pioneers of the 1930s and 1940s", "In the Name of Allah: A History of Clarence 13X and the 5 Percenters Vol. 1 & Vol. 2" and The Naked Truth, From the Goal Mind of Abu Shahid: The Elder of the Nation of Gods and Earths as Told to Wakeel Allah [2] InfluencesIn the song lyrics of "Exhibit C" by rapper Jay Electronica of Roc Nation, "trying to find the meaning of life in a Corona, till the Five Percenters rolled up on a nigga and reformed him", he credits Allah and Muhammad aka "True Islam" as the ones who recruited him to the Five Percent Nation.[3] In an article in The Final Call newspaper that covered the response of "the Demonstration" which was a performance by Jay Electronica and Jay-Z at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival accompanied by a large cadre of the Fruit of Islam, Wakeel Allah wrote about the historical ties between the Nation of Islam and the Five Percenters.[4] Bibliography
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/2013_11_01_archive.html|title=KEEPING IT REAL: November 2013|publisher=fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com|accessdate=2014-05-28}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Allah, Wakeel}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/A_history_of_Clarence_13X_and_the_Five_Percenters_3290.shtml|title=A history of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters|publisher=finalcall.com|accessdate=2014-05-24}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://hiphopwired.com/2012/06/28/the-meaning-of-the-5-a-look-at-the-nation-of-gods-and-earths/|title=The Meaning Of The 5%: A Look At The Nation Of Gods And Earths | Hip-Hop Wired|publisher=hiphopwired.com|accessdate=2014-05-24}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/article_101632.shtml|title=Inextricably Linked: The Nation of Islam and the Five Percenters|publisher=finalcall.com|accessdate=2014-11-07}} 7 : Living people|Five percenters|American historians of religion|American male non-fiction writers|Morehouse College alumni|Writers from Plainfield, New Jersey|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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