# Wesley Muhammad
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'''Dr. Wesley Muhammad Ph.D.''' is an American author and a minister in the [Nation of Islam](/source/Nation_of_Islam).
President of the Black Student Union in high school, Muhammad attended [Morehouse College](/source/Morehouse_College) in Atlanta, where he joined the [5 Percenters](/source/5_percenters) and then became a [Fruit of Islam](/source/Fruit_of_Islam) while the [Nation of Islam](/source/Nation_of_Islam) was under the leadership of [Louis Farrakhan](/source/Louis_Farrakhan).[{{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}}] Muhammad received a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Morehouse in [Atlanta](/source/Atlanta), graduating with honors in 1994. In 2003 he received a [master's degree](/source/Master's_Degree) in [Islamic studies](/source/Islamic_Studies) from the [University of Michigan](/source/University_of_Michigan) (Ann Arbor), where he also received a Ph.D. in [Islamic Studies](/source/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](/source/International_Journal_of_Middle_East_Studies)'', the ''[Journal of the American Oriental Society](/source/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](/source/Middle_Eastern_Studies) at the [University of Toledo](/source/University_of_Toledo) and [Michigan State University](/source/Michigan_State_University).[{{cite web |title=Wesley Muhammad – Academia.edu |url=https://independent.academia.edu/WesleyMuhammad/CurriculumVitae |website=independent.academia.edu}}]
In 2013 he was a scholarly aide to Louis Farrakhan at Nation of Islam National Headquarters, [Mosque Maryam](/source/Mosque_Maryam) in Chicago.[{{Cite web|url=http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_9965.shtml|title = Walking with Farrakhan: A Perspective}}]
In 2021 he made an appearance in the documentary ''Buck Breaking''.[{{Cite book|url=https://fontanalib.org/books/buck-breaking|title=Buck Breaking|date=2021-07-15|language=en}}]
== 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}}
== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Facebook|wesleymuhammad}}
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Category:African-American male writers
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