# Wakeel Allah > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wakeel_Allah > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Wakeel_Allah.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakeel_Allah > Source revision: 1328854938 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American author}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2024}} '''Wakeel Allah''' is an American author, and a member of the [Nation of Islam](/source/Nation_of_Islam). He is best known for his books ''In the Name of Allah: A History of [Clarence 13X](/source/Clarence_13X) and the [Five Percenters](/source/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](/source/Plainfield%2C_NJ), and joined the [Five-Percent Nation](/source/Five-Percent_Nation) as a freshman at [Plainfield High School](/source/Plainfield_High_School_(New_Jersey)). He attended [Morehouse College](/source/Morehouse_College) 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](/source/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 [Nation of Islam](/source/Nation_of_Islam) under the leadership of Minister [Louis Farrakhan](/source/Louis_Farrakhan).{{cite web|url=http://fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com/2013_11_01_archive.html|title=KEEPING IT REAL: November 2013|date=15 November 2013 |publisher=fahimknightsworld.blogspot.com|access-date=2014-05-28}} === Career === Wakeel Allah has been viewed as a premiere historian of the Five Percent Nation and Nation of Islam movements.{{cite web |last1=Harrison|first1=Isheka|title=5 Things to Know About Wakeel Allah, the Scholar of the Five Percenters |url=https://moguldom.com/313033/5-things-to-know-about-wakeel-allah-the-scholar-of-the-five-percenters/|website=www.moguldom.com |access-date=June 8, 2023 |date=October 26, 2020}} 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'' {{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|access-date=2014-05-24}} ===Influences=== In the song lyrics of "[Exhibit C](/source/Exhibit_C)" by rapper [Jay Electronica](/source/Jay_Electronica) of [Roc Nation](/source/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.{{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|access-date=2014-05-24}} In an article in ''[The Final Call](/source/The_Final_Call_(newspaper))'' newspaper that covered the response of "the Demonstration," which was a performance by Jay Electronica and [Jay-Z](/source/Jay-Z) at [the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival](/source/the_Brooklyn_Hip-Hop_Festival) accompanied by a large cadre of the [Fruit of Islam](/source/Fruit_of_Islam), Wakeel Allah wrote about the historical ties between the Nation of Islam and the Five Percenters.{{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|access-date=2014-11-07}} == Bibliography == * {{cite book| title=The History of the Nation of Islam Vol. 1: The Pioneer Years (1930-1950) | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2014| isbn= 978-0983379744}} * {{cite book | title=In the Name of Allah Vol. 1: A History of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0982161814}} * {{cite book| title=In the Name of Allah Vol. 2: A History of Clarence 13X and the Five Percenters | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0982161821}} * {{cite book| title=The Naked Truth from the Goal Mind of Abu Shahid the Elder of the Nation of Gods and Earths, as Told to and Compiled by Wakeel Allah | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0982161807}} * {{cite book| title=The Nation of Islam's Temple #7 Harlem USA: My Years with Malcolm and Farrakhan | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2011| isbn= 978-0983379706}} == References == {{Reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Allah, Wakeel}} Category:Living people Category:Five percenters Category:Nation of Islam religious leaders Category:American historians of Islam Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:Morehouse College alumni Category:Writers from Plainfield, New Jersey Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Historians from New Jersey Category:21st-century African-American writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Wakeel Allah](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakeel_Allah) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakeel_Allah?action=history)). 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