Most African American Muslims today are Sunni Muslims who pray to the formless Supreme Being they call Allah - God. They are not members of the Nation of Islam, but follow the leadership of Imam ...

Historians often describe the moment Mohammed assumed leadership as a turning point in American religious history — a ...

A dramatic religious rapprochement appears to be developing between two Chicago-based Muslim factions, prompted by a ”thawing” of the long rivalry and public disputes between the respective leaders, ...

Imam Warith D. Mohammed, the nation's most prominent African-American Islamic leader and the man who led black Muslims away from the Nation of Islam toward a more orthodox form of Islam in the 1970s, ...

The divisive Louis Farrakhan may be the best-known voice of America's black Muslims, but in recent decades, the most influential has undoubtedly belonged to Imam W. Deen Mohammed, who preached a more ...

Gregory Holmes, right, wearing traditional Senegalese clothes, at Eid al-Adha prayers held at Masjid Bilal Islamic Center in Los Angeles. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Beneath the glinting green ...

The six tour guides of the Chicago Black Muslim History Tour stood up to give and receive greetings of peace to a procession of guests as they stepped on the bus. The group of visiting Indonesian ...

WASHINGTON – The head of Islamic chaplains in the New York City Department of Correction said in a recent speech that the “greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House,” Jews control the ...