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Pre-Publication Reviews Reviews The Supreme Wisdom Lessons is the most interesting, original, and significant book on the Nation of Islam that I have read in the last 25 years. In tracing the inspiration, history, and use of the Lessons, Michael Muhammad Knight illuminates everything from the origin of Fard Muhammad and the development of and struggles within the NOI to the formation of the Five Percenters. He shows how this scripture has been far more influential than the Bible or the Qur'an in the development in American Islam. Until now, it has been not given the scholarly attention it merits, and there is nothing I have written about the Nation of Islam that would not have been greatly improved had Knight's book existed when I was writing them. Herbert Berg, Professor emeritus, University of North Carolina Wilmington Responding to prison authorities' heavy-handed repression of a minority Black religious group - the Five Percenters, aka the Nation of Gods and Earths - Michael Muhammad Knight has produced a fascinating and well-documented study of the scriptures used by the Nation of Islam and related movements. By situating the teachings of the enigmatic W. D. Fard in the milieu of alternative spiritualities such as freemasonry, theosophy, and apocalypticism, Knight provides a highly original and persuasive demonstration of how to understand religious movements deemed suspicious by the state. Carl W. Ernst, Wiliam R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Michael Muhammad Knight is Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida.

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