Muhammad Jameel

Muhammad Jameel came to Islam in 2010, after hearing Minister Louis Farrakhan deliver the Saviours’ Day address. What began as curiosity became conviction, and within the year he had embraced the faith and taken up a disciplined study of the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

That study soon opened onto an older stream. Drawn to the science of the heart at the center of the classical Sufi tradition, he spent years learning with Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order in Michigan, where the disciplines of dhikr, companionship, and service deepened what the Nation’s teachings had first awakened in him.

His writing lives at the meeting point of these two inheritances. He is the author of three books: Sufism & The Nation of Islam, a study of the hidden affinities between the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the classical Sufi path; Death of the Scholars, an elegy for a vanishing generation of sacred learning; and Religious Exemption, an examination of conscience, law, and the believer’s duty when the two collide.

He writes for the seeker rather than the specialist, in the conviction that the inner dimensions of faith belong to anyone willing to sit still long enough to receive them. He lives and writes in Michigan.