Muhammed Abdullah Al-Ahari

Dr. Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari is an American essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism. al-Ahari has been published in American, Nigerian, Bosnian, and Turkish Islamic periodicals. He has traveled to mosques and Islamic schools around the country with a focus on the preservation of rare pieces of American Islamic Literature and the documenting of the presence of Muslims in the United States and Canada. He has published more than sixty articles in Muslim American magazines and journals including the Message, the Minaret, Islamsko Misao, Islamic Horizons, Indian Times, Fountain Magazine, al-Basheer, New Era, Svijest, Muslim Journal, Muslim Prison Brotherhood Newsletter, al-Talib, The Light, Moorish Science Monitor, and Amexem Times and Seasons. Al-Ahari has published more than twenty books on Islam and American Muslim history through the Chicago-based Magribine Press. Most of these texts are reprints of early American Muslim texts rather than his original writings. His work through Magribine press is important due to the preservation of scholarly editions of early American Muslim texts. His works on Muhammad Alexander Russell Webb and Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives have been used in Muslim Book Clubs (at the Light of Islam Bookstore in Houston, Texas and other places), and as supplementary texts and textbooks in several University level classes on Islam in America. The DePaul University archives in Chicago houses his papers. His original writings have been translated into Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, and Turkish.