An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, Claude Andrew Clegg III's 1997 biography from St. Martin's Press, is a scholarly biography using extensive archival and interview research to reconstruct the Nation of Islam leader's life beyond the movement's own official narratives. Its strength is that archival and interview grounding independent of the movement itself. Its limit is that, like any single biography of a controversial figure, some interpretive judgments are contested by the Nation of Islam's own accounts of its founder; readers wanting the movement's own perspective should also consult its own publications.
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Claude Andrew Clegg III's An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, published by St. Martin's Press in 1997, the top tier reflecting a scholarly biography using extensive archival and interview research to reconstruct the Nation of Islam leader's life beyond the movement's own official narratives. Its limit is that some interpretive judgments are contested by the Nation of Islam's own accounts of its founder; readers wanting the movement's own perspective should also consult its own publications. NotesBiography of Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, St. Martin's Press, 1997.
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AuthorClaude Andrew Clegg III
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
Publication Year1997
Source TypeScholarly work
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