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Article Evaluation (Al Fatihah)

Evaluating Content

- All content is on topic

- The addition of the entire surah(with translation) would be helpful

Evaluating Tone

The article is neutral and explains the importance of Al Fatihah for Muslims

Evaluating Sources

- Varying tafsirs, hadiths, and academic works are sourced. One source is a blog post, but it in itself cites reputable hadiths and tasfirs.

Checking the Talk Page

- Much of what is on the Talk page discusses translation, whether non-Muslims are mentioned in the passage/should be mentioned in the article, and the lack of the actual text of the surah in the article.

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Article Evaluation (African American Muslims)
Content - Introduction - States that Black Muslims are a minority Muslim population when they are the majority.

- History - Heavily leans towards Nation of Islam, very briefly mentions Ahmadiyya. Large jump between Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and early 20th century.

- Sects - Zero citations for Sunni Islam - Very few citations for Moorish Science Temple of America -

Talk Page - No posts; posted regarding lack of history

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History
Most of these captives were forced into Christianity during the era of American slavery;[1] however, there are records of individuals such as Omar ibn Said living the rest of their lives as Muslims in the United States. During the twentieth century, some African Americans converted to Islam, mainly through the influence of black nationalist groups that preached with distinctive Islamic practices including the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded in 1913, and the Nation of Islam, founded in the 1930s and the largest of the two, which attracted at least 20,000 people by 1963.[3][4] Prominent members included activist Malcolm X and boxer Muhammad Ali.[5] The Indian-originated Ahmadiyya Muslim movement also sought converts among African Americans in the 1920s and 1930s.[citation needed]

Sects
The first of such groups created was the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded by Timothy Drew (Drew Ali) in 1913.

Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the world's largest religious denomination, followed by Catholicism. It is also the largest community of Black Muslims.[citation needed]

Its adherents are referred to in Arabic as أهل أسنة والجماعة / ahl as-sunnah wa l-jamāʻah ("the people of the sunnah and the community") or ahl as-sunnah for short.

The Quran, together with hadith (especially those collected in Kutub al-Sittah) and binding juristic consensus form the basis of all traditional jurisprudence within Sunni Islam.

Although many African Americans ancestors were Muslims prior to being kidnapped to America the period of brutal enslavement had done much to rob the cultural and religious identity of many, the story of Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a Muslim prince from West Africa who was made a slave in the United States and freed 40 years later, is a testament to the survival of Muslim belief and practice among enslaved Africans in America.

el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, also known as Malcolm X, is credited with being the catalyst for bringing the black community to Islam in general as well as being the pioneer in leading Black Muslims to Ahlus Sunnah specifically. In the weeks after he left the Nation of Islam, several Sunni Muslims encouraged Malcolm X to learn about their faith. He soon converted to the Sunni faith and was followed by thousands from the Nation of Islam.[citation needed]

Warith Deen Mohammed rose to leadership of the Nation of Islam in 1975 following the death of his father Elijah Muhammad and began the groundbreaking, though sometimes controversial, process of leading Black Muslims out of the NOI and into Sunni Islam. As a result of his personal thinking and studies of the Quran, he became part of Ahlus Sunnah during a term in federal prison from 1961-1963 for refusing induction into the United States military.[citation needed ]

All of the over 400 temples were converted into traditional Islamic mosques, and he introduced the Five Pillars of Islam to his followers.[citation needed]

However, he also encouraged African Americans to separate themselves from their pasts, in 1976 calling upon them to change their surnames which were often given to their ancestors by slave masters.[citation needed]

He forged closer ties with mainstream Muslim communities, including Hispanic and Latino American Muslims.

By 1978 he had succeeded in leading the majority of the original NOI to Sunni Islam which still stands as the largest mass conversion to Islam in the United States.[citation needed] In urban areas of the United States today, many Black Muslims in the Sunni tradition are known and recognized by the hijabs on women and kufi caps and long beards for men. These beards are grown as an adherence to the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad for men to let their beards grow. They are commonly called Sunnah Beards or Sunni Beards among Muslims and, as of recently, Philly beards among non-Muslims.[citation needed]

Moorish Science Temple of America
Its primary tenet was the belief that they are the ancient Moabites who inhabited the Northwestern and Southwestern shores of Africa. The organization also believes that their descendants, after being conquered in Spain, are slaves who were captured and held in slavery from 1779–1865 by their slaveholders.[citation needed]

Nation of Islam
He provided three main principles which serve as the foundation of the NOI: "Allah is God, the white man is the devil and the so-called Negroes are the Asiatic Black People, the cream of the planet earth".[citation needed]

In 1934 Elijah Muhammad became the leader of the NOI. He deified Fard, saying that he was an incarnation of God, and taught that he was a prophet who had been taught directly by God in the form of Fard.