Wakeel Allah is an American author, and a member of the

Nation of Islam The Nation of Islam (NOI) is a religious organization founded in the United States by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930. A centralized and hierarchical organization, the NOI is committed to black nationalism and focuses its attention on the Afr ...

. 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''.

Biography

Wakeel Allah was born and raised in Plainfield, NJ, and joined the

Five-Percent Nation The Five-Percent Nation, sometimes referred to as the Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE/NOGE) or the Five Percenters, is an Black nationalism, Afro-American Nationalist movement influenced by the Nation of Islam founded in 1964 in the Harlem secti ...

as a freshman at Plainfield High School. He attended

Morehouse College Morehouse College is a Private college, private, Historically black colleges and universities, historically black, Men's colleges in the United States, men's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, ...

in Atlanta and became a prominent advocate of Five 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 known as the Allah Team, which is a society of Islamic educators, activists, artists, and cultural influencers. Wakeel Allah is also a member of the

under the leadership of Minister

Louis Farrakhan Louis Farrakhan (; born Louis Eugene Walcott; May 11, 1933) is an American religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam (NOI), a Black nationalism, black nationalist organization. Farrakhan is notable for his leadership of the 1995 Million M ...

Career

Wakeel 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''

Influences

In the song lyrics of " Exhibit C" by rapper Jay Electronica of

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, "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. In an article in '' The Final Call'' newspaper that covered the response of "the Demonstration," which was a performance by Jay Electronica and

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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.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allah, Wakeel Living people Five percenters Nation of Islam religious leaders American historians of religion American male non-fiction writers Morehouse College alumni Writers from Plainfield, New Jersey Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from New Jersey 21st-century African-American writers