{{short description|American historian}}

{{BLP primary sources|date=April 2014}}

frameless|right '''Dr. Wesley Muhammad Ph.D.''' is an American author and a minister in the Nation of Islam.

President of the Black Student Union in high school, Muhammad attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he joined the 5 Percenters and then became a Fruit of Islam while the Nation of Islam was under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harrison|first1=Isheka|title=5 Things to Know About Scholar Dr Wesley Muhammad |url=https://moguldom.com/313024/5-things-to-know-about-scholar-dr-wesley-muhammad/ |website=www.moguldom.com |access-date=June 8, 2023 |date=October 26, 2020}}</ref> Muhammad received a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Morehouse in Atlanta, graduating with honors in 1994. In 2003 he received a master's degree in Islamic studies from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), where he also received a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies with a focus on early theological development in Islam.{{Cn|date=June 2023}}

Muhammad's research has been published in the ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', the ''Journal of the American Oriental Society'', and the ''American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences''. He has been an instructor on courses on Islamic studies, religious studies, African American religion, and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Toledo and Michigan State University.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wesley Muhammad – Academia.edu |url=https://independent.academia.edu/WesleyMuhammad/CurriculumVitae |website=independent.academia.edu}}</ref>

In 2013 he was a scholarly aide to Louis Farrakhan at Nation of Islam National Headquarters, Mosque Maryam in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_9965.shtml|title = Walking with Farrakhan: A Perspective}}</ref>

In 2021 he made an appearance in the documentary ''Buck Breaking''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://fontanalib.org/books/buck-breaking|title=Buck Breaking|date=2021-07-15|language=en}}</ref>

== Bibliography == * {{cite book| url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0982161875/ref=s9_bbs_gw_d0_g14_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1337PJX5SG3J4R8C5N71&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846 | title=The Book of God: An Encyclopedia of Proof that the Black Man is God | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2007| isbn= 978-0982161876}} * {{cite book| title=The Truth of God: The Bible, the Quran and the Secret of the Black God | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2007| isbn= 978-0982161883}} * {{cite book| title=Black Arabia & the African Origin of Islam | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0982161890}} * {{cite book| title=Egyptian Sacred Science and Islam: A Reappraisal | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2012| isbn= 978-0983379751}} * {{cite book| title=The Religion of the Black God: Indic Sacred Science and Islam | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2013| isbn= 978-0983379768}} * {{cite book| title=Take Another Look: The Quran, the Sunnah and the Islam of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2011| isbn= 978-0983379713}} * {{cite book| title=God's Black Prophets: Deconstructing the Myth of the White Muhammad of Arabia and Jesus of Jerusalem | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2010| isbn= 978-0982161852}} * {{cite book| title=Bilad Al'Sudan: Essays on Islam, Africa and Afrocentricity | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2012| isbn= 978-0983379737}} * {{cite book| title=Who is God?: The God Debates | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0982161845}} * {{cite book| title=Master Fard Muhammad: Who is He? Who is He Not? | publisher=A-Team Publishing| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0982161838}}

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==External links== * {{Facebook|wesleymuhammad}} <!-- per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, choose one official website only -->

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