Elijah Muhammad

noun

1. Elijah Poole, 1897–1975, U.S. religious leader of the Black Muslims 1934–75.

Example Sentences

The charismatic leader at the time was rivaled by his former mentor Elijah Muhammad.

From Washington Post

Charming as Street, who spiffs up Malcolm in Boston, the tenor Victor Ryan Robertson largely handles Elijah Muhammad’s muscular high lines but strains to convey his magnetism.

From New York Times

The Sudanese artist narrates the experiences that led him to wide acclaim as a painter challenging paradigms of African, Islamic and “Western” modernism, including encounters with Elijah Muhammad and the African American painter Hale Woodruff.

From New York Times

Appearing in Reader’s Digest, “Mr. Muhammad Speaks” was an in-depth examination of the Nation of Islam, led by Elijah Muhammad, and its growing attraction to Black Americans.

From Washington Post

But in 1964, fissures between him and the sect’s leader, Elijah Muhammad, widened into a messy split.

From New York Times