Nation of Islamn.
/ˌneɪʃn əv ˈɪzlɑːm/, /ˌneɪʃn əv ˈɪslɑːm/, /ˌneɪʃn əv ˈɪzlam/, /ˌneɪʃn əv ˈɪslam/, U.S. /ˌneɪʃ(ə)n əv ˈɪˌslɑm/, /ˌneɪʃ(ə)n əv ˈɪzˌlɑm/ A religious and political movement founded in Detroit, Michigan, c1930 on precepts of black separatism and superiority and of Islam as the natural religion of African Americans. Cf. Black Muslim adj. and n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).The Nation of Islam became particularly prominent in the early 1960s. During the late 1970s many members of the movement largely abandoned the name Nation of Islam and moved towards orthodox Islam.
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a1934 ‘W. Fard’ (title) in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. (1938) 43 901 Teaching for the lost found Nation of Islam in a mathematical way.
1938 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 43 894 The Negro sect known to its members as the ‘Nation of Islam’ or the ‘Muslims’..has significance for social science research partly because of its synthesis of heterogeneous cultural elements and partly because of its unique expression of race consciousness.
1962 A. J. Marrow Changing Patterns of Prejudice xiii. 193 The head of the Nation of Islam movement..is Elijah Muhammad. In New York City the chief is Malcolm X (the ‘Muhammad’ and the ‘X’ have been adopted in place of ‘slave-master’ names).
1998 Gay Times 66/2 It draws parallels between those who want integration and those who want to preserve a separate culture. When this option was given to American blacks, it led to the forming of militant separatist groups like The Nation of Islam.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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