SOCIOL 2TA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fez, Moorish Science Temple Of America, Quran
4 Jul 2018
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SOCIOLOGY 2TA3 September 21, 2017
LECTURE FOUR
- Christianity had discriminated blacks and enslaved them in their eyes, had also separated them;
Islam was there to promote some kind of racial equality
- Blacks were looking for a religion to satisfy their spiritual needs; saw Christianity as a white led
religion
- Black movements: were more social and racial rather than religious; Islam was important, but
not that important
- Sharia was important
- Black movements called places of worship temples rather than mosques
-Timothy Drew was born in North Carolina in 1886; a child of a slave; he travelled to Morocco,
Saudi Arabia; claimed to have met the king of Saudi Arabia, in Mecca given the name Ali; he
stopped by England here he met the Queen; this happened around 1913; made Noble by the
Queen and was given a title of being a Prophet of God within the black community; he had his
own “Koran”; only 48 suras (54 pages); he brought together different religious teachings into his
own version of the Quran
-Moorish Science Temple this was started by Drew Ali to unite the oppressed people (the
blacks); the first originated in Jerusalem (Canaan); then Asia, Africa, and from Morocco the
blacks came; he tried to ally himself with the King of Morocco
- he made a flag and claimed it was 10,000 years old
- Islam considered a true religion from Asia;
- Because of the Asiatic origins, it gave them pride from their culture
- Drew Ali claimed that the Moorish Americans had two homelands: America and Morocco; the
heritage gave them a sense of pride
- The Moorish used the words “Negro” towards the blacks as a way to look down on the blacks
-Marcus Garvey a black man that urged all other blacks to return to Africa (specifically in
Libera); created by those who returned from America; Drew Ali disagreed and said you don’t
need to go back, you just have to liberate yourself in going back to your heritage; many of
Garvey’s followers agreed with Drew Ali; many believed that Drew Ali was sent by Allah
(astaghz): five principles: love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice
- Their own version was meant for their own people and not for everyone to see
- They addressed God as Father (astaghz)
- The purpose of his Quran was to elevate humanity ; the first 19 pages of his version talked about
Jesus and his journey to India
- Jesus was reincarnated into Mohammed, Muslims conquered in 1453 Constantinople, in this
bible Jesus cut the head off the devil at that same time
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