FBI Report on Elijah Muhammad

Glossary

• Allah the name of the Islamic deity
• Bering Straits the narrow channel that separates Russia and Alaska and that in earlier ages was above water
• Hanafi American Mussulman a splinter organization of the Nation of Islam formed by Khalifa Hamaas Abdul Khaalis in 1958
• Master Fard Muhammad the founder of the Nation of Islam
• MS an abbreviation for the title of the Nation of Islam publication Muhammad Speaks
• MT an abbreviation for Muhammad's Temple, the name given to all Nation of Islam temples, which are then distinguished by a number
• Quran the Islam sacred scripture, usually spelled Qur'an or Koran
• Sister Clara Muhammad Elijah Muhammad's wife
• Wheel based on the biblical book of Ezekiel, an immense ship or plane made like a wheel and the means by which Allah will carry out his aims in the world