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Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam is a small minority Muslim community with affiliated mosques and study groups throughout the United States. Minister Farrakhan is a well-known and divisive religious leader. Indeed, he is regarded by many as a dangerous anti-Semite. Much less is known about the rank-and-file members of the NOI who work tirelessly to improve socioeconomic conditions in their respective communities. Minister Farrakhan has engaged in interfaith activism throughout his career. His followers have likewise made significant efforts to work across religious and racial lines. This paper concerns itself with the social activism and inter-faith outreach efforts that NOI members make to transform their communities and to ease tensions where they exist within these communities. The paper argues that such efforts have earned the NOI a degree of prestige and respect while also providing Minister Farrakhan with an ever-growing platform in some communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Muhammad Ali's career is subject to considerable debate. Yet few of the existing biographies that concern Ali's life discuss in any detail his involvement with the 'notorious' Black Muslims. This article examines All's significance to the Nation of/s/am. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the contributions of Louis Farrakhan in the development and leading of the Islamic organization, the Nation of Islam (NOI), and the course of its future once this leader is no longer around. It discusses the formation of the Executive Board of the NOI in order to help solve the problems of the Nation. Further, it argues against some commonly held notions in the U.S. that predict the possible disintegration of the NOI when Farrakhan is no longer present.