From: professordorman@gmail.com
Does anyone know of someone who has done work, scholarly or otherwise, on contemporary manifestations of Moorish Science, after Noble Drew Ali, the white Moorish Orthodox Church, or the various permutations of Malachi Z. York? An AP reporter in North Carolina is trying to account for the growing number of people claiming Moorish nationality in the court system. I have checked dissertations and theses and various other databases and found nothing; I have also polled a number of ethnographers, and no one knows of anyone looking at Moorish Science today. Can anyone on this list help? At the very least this seems like a great research opportunity for an enterprising graduate student.
From: yusufnuruddin@yahoo.com
In addition to the bibliography on the Moorish Science Temple and on Malachi York's Nuwaubian Moors which I supplied earlier, here is a major title which I just discovered: The Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control by Susan Palmer. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2010.
I also neglected to mention a feature story on the Nuwaubian Moors by Adam Heimlich
entitled "Black Egypt A Visit to Tama-Re" which appeared in the weekly newspaper New
York Press (November 14, 2000)and is available on the web. A shorter article on the Nuwaubians appears in the magazine Bidoun: Art and Culture from the
Middle East circa 2009/ 2010 but I would have to search for a while to find
my photocopy of the article in order to give you the exact date. There are also tons of articles of various qualities and ideological persuasions on the web.
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From: yusufnuruddin@yahoo.com
The Moorish Science Temple and the Ansaru Allah Community (early name of Malachi York’s Nuwabian Moors) each have a separate chapter in Yvonne Haddad’ and Jane Idleman Smith’s Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian
Communities in North America (University Press of Florida, 1993); chapter 3 of Richard Brent Turner’s Islam in the African American Experience (Indiana University Press, 1997) is devoted to the history of the Moorish Science Temple; Kathleen Malone O’Connor’s article “The Nubian Islamic Hebrews, Ansaru Allah Community: Jewsish Teachings of an African American Muslim Community” appears in Yvonne Chireau and Nathaiel Deutsch, eds., Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism (Oxford University Press, 2000) ; a major work on the Moorish Science Temple is Jose Pimienta –Bey’s Othello’s Children in the New World: Moorish History and Ideology in the African American Experience. (1st Library Books, 2002); .my comparison and contrast of the teachings of the Nation of Gods and Earths (Five Percenters)and Malachi York’s Nuwabian Moors/Ansaru Allah Community is entitled “Ancient Black Astronauts and Extraterrestrial Jihads: Islamic Science Fiction as Urban Mythology” and appears in the special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy entitled Socialism and Social Critique in Science
Fiction (No. 42; November, 2006) edited by Yusuf Nuruddin, Alcena Rogan and Victor Wallis, and is freely accessible on line at www.sdonline.org , back issues , #42; I am also aware of works in progress on the
Nuwabian Moors.
Members of the Moorish Science Temple have published atleast two recent books about their organization and beliefs. Rommani M.Amenu-El is the author of The Negro,
the Black, the Moor (Baltimore; Gateway Press, 2008). A massive work (667 pages ) by Sheik Elihu N. Pleasant-Bey is entitled Noble Drew Ali: The Exhuming of a Nation(distributed by African World Books in Baltimore, and published circa 2010).
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From: bcpdigital@yahoo.com
quite a few self published books have been done on the Moors over the last decade. best source i can think of is African World Books, Baltimore 410-383-2006, ask for brother Nati. he keeps a good inventory of them.
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