Muhammed Al-Ahari

Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari is an American Muslim essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism. He converted to the faith in 1982. For the next three years Muhammed traveled the country in search of the many folkways of American Islamic expression. He had on numerous occasions attendedFarrakhan's Nation of Islam, meetings of Father Hurley's Universal Spiritual Assembly, the Moorish Science Temple, the El-Rukn's, Harlem's Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood, Masjid Ezaldeen in West Valley in New York, copied the Bilali Muhammad manuscript by hand and published a translation through Magribine Press. He has also attended meetings of the Nubian Islamic Hebrews under the teachings of Dwight York. Muhammad al-Ahari has studied Sufism under the guidance of Nimatullahi, Naqshbandi, Owaisi, Qadiri, Tidjani and Bektashi masters. He has done extensive spiritual outreach among the Bosnian community causing many to return to their Islamic heritage. Muhammed al-Ahari took a Masters in English literature from Northeastern Illinois University in 1996, and has studied Islam at Chicago's near-defunct American Islamic College where he took coursework in Sirah, Hadith, Islamic History, Arabic, and Fiqh. He is currently in the last year of a Doctorate in Education Leadership at the University of Phoenix. Muhammed al-Ahari has been working as a teacher in the Chicago public school system since 1995.