Magribine Press

27/02/2025

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New from Magribine Press -- A never before-published single-volume serial novel by Shaykh Abdullah Quilliam.

The Wages of Sin is a serial novel written for serial publication in “The Crescent” by Shaykh William Henry Abdullah Quilliam of Liverpool. He was the first M***i of Great Britain and the founder of the Islamic Center in Liverpool in the 1890s. is a unique novel that uses Victorian moralist ro.....

23/02/2025

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Two works by Abdullah Quilliam and three by Webb will be out within the week.

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23/02/2025

AsSalaamu aliekum, New Release. https://www.amazon.com/American-Mawlid-Bosnian-Turkish-Sources/dp/B0DXV189PD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=AHCAR7X5XZ9Q&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qkUXawgZsX1PMMXEwRqr3aW26F7BkwoWU3B3xCTEWCs.koGdNjMBN4sfq1X-YnV-31gCEdnjPoJGJ1KrZIeDhwU&dib_tag=se&keywords=an+american+mawlid&qid=1740325781&sprefix=an+american+mawlid%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1

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20/02/2025

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Paperback now available.

Shaykh Kamil Yusuf Avdich Effendi (July 10, 1914 – December 2, 1979) was the first permanent Bosnian imam in the United States. It was of primary importance for him to preserve Islam among immigrants and present a proper and understandable explanation to non-Muslims in the West. The methodol...

31/10/2024

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A podcast I was on about writing American Islamic History.

Podcast Episode · Black Glue Podcast · 10/29/2024 · 42m

19/08/2024

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Table of contents and editor's foreword from Magribine Press' latest publicaation.

America’s Forgotten Muslims:
The Untold Story of Professor Ezaldeen and the Hamitic-Arabs of America

Fathie bin Ali Abdat

Library Cataloging Data:

Author: Fathie bin Ali Abdat
Title: America's Forgotten Muslims: The Untold Story of Professor Ezaldeen and the Hamitic-Arabs of America
Publisher: Magribine Press
City: Chicago, IL
Year: 2024
Edition: 1st
Pages: 630, Illustrated with bibliography and tables
ISBN: 9798334661158 (paperback)
ISBN: 9798334663374 (hardcover)

Table of Contents:

Editor’s Foreword ………………………………………………. 5
Prologue ……………………………………………………………. 7
Glossary…………………………………………………………… 11
1: Roots and the Rise of Sheik James Lomax-Bey ………………………………………………………………………… 13
2: The Rebel Sheik of Detroit …………………………….. 33
3: Ali Mehmet Bey in Turkey and Muhammed Ez Al Deen in Egypt ………………………………………………….. 60
4: In Search of the Hamitic Arabs of America ……… 85
5: The Manufacturing of a Hamitic-Arab Theology, Identity & Membership ……………………………………. 155
6: Japan, Germany & WWII ……………………………. 194
7: Black American Sunni Muslim Colony …………. 268
8: The Devil’s Tests, 1940s-1957 ………………………. 316
9: New-Ark ……………………………………………………. 379
10: New York State of Mind …………………………….. 429
11: The Entangled Pathways of Philly’s Hamitic-Arabs
………………………………………………………………… 532
Post-Script ……………………………………………………… 578

Appendixes:
Annex A: The Professor’s Sahabah ……………………. 585
Annex B: List of Organizations …………………………. 601
Annex C: Cast of Important Characters …………….. 603

Bibliography ………………………………………………….. 607

Editor’s Foreword:

Fathie bin Ali Abdat is a civil servant in the Ministry of Education of Singapore. He has written several journal articles on twentieth century American Islam. After graduating from the National University of Singapore’s Department of History with a Master of Arts degree, his thesis was on Malcolm X, he taught at various schools shaping students to be better versions of themselves. Away from the pressures of the Ministry, he devotes long hours and devours countless cups of teh halia (a local brew of ginger tea) researching on the Moorish Science Temple of America and the Nation of Islam which has been published in several academic journals as well as featured on the websites of these religious movements. He lives in Punggol, an isolated nook in the northeast of Singapore, with his wife and three kids and lives for Islam, historical research, and football.
This extensive study of one of the earliest Sunni Muslim communities, the Deen Allahi Universal Arabic Association, is expansive in scope and uncovers the connections between the Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, and other Islamic groups in the twentieth century African-American communities. Professor Ezaldeen was originally a follower of the Chicago-based founder and prophet of the Moorish Science Temple of America Noble Drew Ali. At that time he was in Detroit and known as Grand Governor James Lomax Bey.
When Drew Ali passed after a beating by Chicago police and a boat with tuberculosis, Lomax-Bey took dozens of his followers to found a colony of emigres from the African-American Muslims of the United States in Istanbul. Later they moved to Egypt when Attaturk’s secular Turkish Republic was established.
There James Lomax Bey became Mehmet Ali and later Professor Ezzeldeen. While in Egypt he studied with the Young Muslim League in Cairo, sat in in classes at Al-Azhar, and studied Egyptology. When he came back to the United States he went to New York City and eventually ended up in Buffalo where his first Islamic community was established and his idea of Muslim towns began to be implemented.
His struggles with the Moorish Science Temple and with other early African-American Muslim leaders is explored and put in the context of the times and of the Civil Rights Movement. It was an honor to have read, edited, and given feedback on this pioneering work. I believe this is the beginning of a lifelong study of Islam in the West and not just a one-off study.

Dr. Muhammed A. Al-Ahari
Doctorate of Education Leadership UOP (2017).
Chicago, IL
July 7, 2024

05/08/2024

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I am reprinting a 2 issue Islamic periodical published by Jazz music reviewer Jerry "Jamil" Figi. Does anyone have photos or more info about him? I only met him once with the former Islamic Party secretary Imam Daud Salahudeen. I will try and contact his wife, but she never met me and she was not Muslim.

Jamil Figi, an American jazz critic, was born May 22, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois. While growing up in Monroe, Wisconsin Figi frequently heard live jazz in Madison, Wisconsin, and Chicago. Soon after high school graduation, Figi settled in Chicago and on his first night in the new city heard Lester Young play live in a nightclub. For the rest of his life, Figi remained an avid fan of Young's playing.

An influential jazz writer, Figi's work first appeared in small magazines in the early 1960's, particularly in the literary magazine December. During this time, Figi also began writing the Chicago modern jazz column for Coda magazine and liner notes for record companies, mostly notably Chicago's Delmark label. Liner notes written by Figi include: Sun Ra, Sun Song; John Young Trio, The John Young Trio; Roscoe Mitchell, Sound; Joseph Jarman, Song For; and Bud Powell, Bouncing with Bud.

Figi also wrote for John and Leni Sinclair's Change, a publication devoted to the new jazz of the 1960's as well as the popular weekly Chicago Reader. In 1969, Figi wrote his first Downbeat article about B***y Blue Bland and later interviewed jazz great, Cecil Taylor. During the 1980's, Figi became one of Downbeat's staff record reviewers. Figi was highly involved with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Figi was also a board member of the Jazz Institute of Chicago and a programming committee member for the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Figi died in Chicago on May 30, 1999.

05/08/2024

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Some of the titles I publish.

Magribine Press:
Book List

Bilali Muhammad's Meditations: Sapelo Island, Georgia 1770-1857
by Muhammed A. Al-Ahari The text that you hold in your hands is a translation of the unique work on Islamic Law and Beliefs by Bilali Muhammad (1770s-1857) of Sapelo Island, Georgia. This includes a biography of Bilali Muhammad, a translation of his writings, a list of words from the Gullah dialect of English from him and other early Muslims, a description of the education system he studied under and the texts he studied, and a discussion placing Bilali's work in the context of Islam in the West and the effects of the slave trade. This grandfather of American Islamic Literature needs to be further studied and this work starts the process.
Paperback
$13.95



The Second Moorish Akashic Record: An annotated edition of Infinite Wisdom
by Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Aug 3, 2011
Paperback
$8.00



The Second Moorish Akashic Record: An annotated edition of Infinite Wisdom
by Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Aug 3, 2011
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$12.95



Islamic American Heritage: Prominent Slaves and Our Founding Fathers
by Mahnaz Pater-Rov and Muhammed Al-Ahari
Paperback
$24.95



The Black Man, the Father of the Civilization: and other Biblical Commentary
by Rev. James Morris Webb and Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari | Mar 17, 2010
Paperback
$9.95



Bosna u Istorijskoj Perspektivi
by Camil ef. J. Avdic and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Aug 12, 2013
Paperback
$15.95



Islam, the True Faith, the Religion of Humanity
by Hajj Shaykh Daoud Ahmed Faisal and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jun 10, 2011
Paperback
$11.95


An Open Book on Hidden Mysteries
by Rev. S. C. Blackledge and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari
Paperback
$13.00

Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives (American Islamic Heritage) Paperback – June 13, 2011
by Muhammad A Al-Ahari (Author), Omar ibn Said (Author), Abu Bakr Sadiq (Author), Selim Aga (Author),



Women Under Islam:: Their Social Status and Legal Rights
by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jan 4, 2018
Paperback
$5.95



Islamic Philosophy and Muslim Chivalry
by John Yehya en-Nasr Parkinson and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari | Aug 15, 2021
Paperback
$15.99

Universal Ethiopian Hymnal of the Congregation Beth B’nai
by Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari



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$6.95



A Guide to Namaz: A Detailed Exposition of the Muslim Order of Ablutions and Prayer with a Review of the Five Pillars of Practice
by Muhammad Webb, Moulvi Ali, et al. | Oct 3, 2018
Paperback
$6.95



From Behind the Stacks Of The Library of Time:: Selected Writings
by Seid ef. Kadia Karic and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari | Aug 20, 2018
Paperback
$12.95



Thoughts for the Future: Allanson-Winn Lord Headley
by Allanson-Winn Lord Headley and Muhammed A Al-Ahari | Aug 7, 2018
Paperback
$8.95



Muhammad's Place in the Church
by Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb, Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari, et al. | Jun 1, 2018
Paperback
$7.95



Bilingual Islamic Education: as taken from the Educational Theories of African Muslim Slaves in Antebellum America
by Muhammed A. Al-Ahari
Paperback
$7.95



North America and Africa: Their Past, Present and Future & Key to the Negro Problem
by John Frederick Foard and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jan 5, 2018
Paperback
$13.95



Vita:: Prolongation of Life and the Perpetuation of Youth
by Havilah Squires and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jan 1, 2018
Paperback
$6.99



Saracenic Science and Literature: The Transmission of Knowledge in Islamic Societies
by Salahuddin Khuda Baksh and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jan 1, 2018
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The Evidences of Islam: The Religion of the Muslims Clearly of Divine Origin
by Haji Abdullah Browne and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Dec 31, 2017
Paperback
$6.49



Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of Today
by Haji Abdullah Browne and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari
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$14.95



The Life and Morals of the Prophet Muhammad
by Muhammed Al-Ahari and Albert Fua | Jul 12, 2016
Paperback
$7.95



Early Studies in Black Nationalism, Cults, and Churches in Chicago
by Muhammed Al-Ahari | Dec 5, 2013
Paperback
$8.95



Islam in America: An Annotated Edition
by Muhammad Webb and Muhammed Al-Ahari
Paperback
$12.95



The Ramadan Fast:: The Debate on the Benefits of the Ramadan Fast According to Modern Science
by Dr. Huseyin Hulki and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jun 12, 2013
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The Outline of Islam: Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari
by Kamil Y. Avdich and Adnan Balihodzic | Jan 1, 2012
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The Merits of Islam and the Prayer Book of Islam
by Hamid Urban Snow and Muhammed A. Al--Ahari | Dec 29, 2011
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$11.95



An Open Book on Hidden Mysteries
by Rev. S. C. Blackledge and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari | Nov 19, 2011
Paperback
$13.00



Bosnia in Historic Perspective
by Camil Jusuf Avdic and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari
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$15.95



Taking Islam to the Street: The Da'wah of the Islamic Party
by Islamic Party North America and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari | Jun 14, 2011
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Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives (American Islamic Heritage)
by Muhammad A Al-Ahari, Omar ibn Said, et al. | Jun 13, 2011
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$14.95



The Islam Papers: The 1893 World Parliament of Religion
by Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jun 13, 2011
Paperback
$9.75



The Moslem World and Voice of Islam
by Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari
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$14.95



A Message from Croat Moslems to their Religious Brethren in the World
by Dr. Dzafer Kulenovich and Muhammed A. Al-Ahari | May 29, 2011
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$6.95



Muhammad Iqbal and the Spirit of Muslim Revival
by Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari , Kamil Yousef Avdich, et al. | May 2, 2011
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A Heritage of East and West: The Writings of Imam Camil Avdic - Volume One
by Muhammed al-Ahari | Mar 30, 2011
$17.00



The Armenian Troubles and the Ottoman Empire: The Views of a Nineteenth Century American Convert to Islam
by Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb and Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari | Mar 22, 2011
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In Service to Humanity: A History of the John Crerar Library
by Kamil Yousef Avdich and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Jan 7, 2011
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$9.00



The Black Man, the Father of the Civilization: and other Biblical Commentary
by Rev. James Morris Webb and Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari | Mar 17, 2010
Paperback
$8.00



Three Years of Egyptian History 1798-1801:: Napoleon's Conquest of Egypt
by Imam Kamil Yusuf Avdich and Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari | Feb 10, 2010
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$13.00



THE OSMANLI DIASPORA & The Development of an Ethnic Press
by Muhammed al-Ahari
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05/08/2024

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Now in Audible

America’s Forgotten Muslims: The Untold Story of Professor Ezaldeen and the Hamitic-Arabs of America

05/08/2024

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Ebook link.

America’s Forgotten Muslims: The Untold Story of Professor Ezaldeen and the Hamitic-Arabs of America

01/08/2024

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New book from Magribine Press.

America’s Forgotten Muslims: The Untold Story of Professor Ezaldeen and the Hamitic-Arabs of America

29/07/2024

Sounds about right.
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16/06/2024

Eid Mubarak

14/01/2024

AsSalaamu aliekum, The cover for my forthcoming book on Edward Blyden's translations from Arabic.

10/12/2023

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My book on Edward Blyden's translations of Liberian Arabic manuscripts will be out in early January. When the cover is finished it will be sent for printing.

04/09/2023

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My latest article.

The American Islamic Propagation Movement

13/08/2023

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This is a reprint of a study on Muslim women from over a century ago that I reprinted.

Original Publication: Garnett, Lucy M. J. (1895). “Women under Islam: Their Social Status and Legal Rights,” The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art. New Series, Vol. LXI. February 1895: pp. 220-229. This edition has a new foreword, bibliography, and annotations.