The lasting effects of Dusé Mohamed Ali’s social and academic efforts are far-reaching, being seen in not Garvey but in those whom Garvey was mentor to, such as Noble Drew Ali and Elijah Poole (who was reportedly involved with the UNIA's Detroit chapter before joining the Nation of Islam and becoming Elijah Muhammad). Both of Malcolm X’s parents were also members of UNIA. A continuum of claims and beliefs can be found among these movements and their leaders, such as Black Pride, the idea of a land base, Black Supremacy, and return to the primordial religion.Drew claimed that African Americans were all descended from the ancient inhabitants of Moab (ancient Moabites), that Islam and its teachings are more beneficial to their earthly salvation, and that their true nature had been withheld from them. In the traditions he founded, male members of the Temple wear a fez as head covering; women wear a turban. They added the suffixes Bey or El to their surnames, to signify Moorish heritage as well as their taking on the new life of claiming their identity as Moorish Americans. It was also a way to claim and proclaim a new identity other than that lost to slavery of their ancestors in the United States.
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Can't forget that it's said that W.D. Fard, the founder of the Nation of Islam, was a member of the Moorish Science Temple. Some current Moors have even identified someone in old pictures from Noble Drew Ali's day that they claim to be Master Fard.
Another Garvey connection is that, just like the Rastafarians point to Garvey as having been a herald of Jah Hailie Selassie I (sort of a John the Baptist to his Messiah), I've seen on some Moorish sites that Garvey is considered the herald of Noble Drew Ali as well! While that may be taken spiritually, in terms of Garvey's influence on the ideologies of those two movements, I certainly wouldn't argue.
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Thank you.
Welcome to the spot.
I like your style.
I've learned a couple of things in just your brief tenure.
The "Y Frame" in Hypnosis.
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Tell me more about the Moors. Where can I find one of these sites?
its a sad sad day when we are so lost in slumber that marketing commericals can this blatantly tell us that we hate ourselves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOM4AMV050A
“Duse’ Muhammad is now remembered by Pan-Africanists as mentor to Marcus Garvey, who worked at the African Times and Orient Review in 1913. Some of the formative concepts that Garvey injected into the UNIA and his Negro World journal came from Duse Muhammad and the London Pan-Africanist circle. The African Times and Orient Review was a radical magazine that found its way across the seas through a network of black seafarers and stevedores. It created an unprecedented international forum for debating the theory and praxis of anti-colonialism. A truly innovative and broadly capable intellectual, Duse Muhammad also played a strategic role in several African liberation movements, abolitionism, and organizations for defense of national and cultural minorities.”
-Black Pilgrimage to Islam
“Another influence that Marcus Garvey would have on the Nation of Islam was the emphasis on institutionalization. It’s one thing to advance ideas. It’s another thing to build institutions that reflect those ideas and allow for the articulation of power in the world. Individuals don’t articulate power in the world…institutions do. Individuals are only powerful within the context of institutions. That’s a fact. You take any person you think is powerful in the West and divorce them from the institutional context of the United States government; of the United States military; of NATO or whatever…with no institutional context, you have a strong person unable to project any power or any meaningful influence in the world. Garvey understood if African-Americans were going to be dignified people and contributing on the world stage, then institutions would have to be built. Charismatic leader but mostly an institution builder.”
-African Muslims in the 20th Century American History
MLK was not an institution builder. His work was supported by US institutions.
Thanks, DV.
Gee-Chee gives some great information on 'Duse' Muhammad's influence on Pan-Africanism, anti-colonialism and Garvey's UNIA. That's stuff I did not know.
Here is the page on the Moorish Science Temple of American website that specifically mentions Garvey as a forerunner and herald to Noble Drew Ali:
http://www.themoorishsciencetempleofamerica.net/lineage.html
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