Yakub (Nation of Islam)

According to the Nation of Islam (NOI), Yakub (also spelled Yacub or Yakob ), was a scientist alive "6,600 years ago", responsible for creating the white race , a "race of devils ". The doctrine of Yakub was first proclaimed by Wallace Fard Muhammad and was later developed by his successor Elijah Muhammad . Yakub created white people by a process of grafting the "black " to a "white" from the original black population of the world. According to the Autobiography of Malcolm X , all the races except the black race were by-products of Yakub's work. However the "black race" included all Asian peoples, considered to be shared ancestors of the Moors. "Whites" were defined as Europeans and Jews . It took 600 years for Yakub and his successors to fully whiten his creations. This was achieved under a despotic regime on the island of Patmos . The reasons for Yakub's actions are unclear. In his autobiography (written by Alex Haley ), Malcolm X notes that, in his travels in the Middle East , many Muslims reacted with shock upon hearing about the doctrine of Yakub. The African American author and playwright Amiri Baraka wrote a play titled A Black Mass based on the story of Yakub. Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America (summarized here ) and Yakub: The Father of Mankind .

Yakub (sometimes spelled Yacub or Yakob ) is, according to the Nation of Islam (NOI), a black scientist who lived "6,600 years ago" and was responsible for creating the white race to be a "race of devils ". He is said to have done this through a form of selective breeding referred to as "grafting", while living on the island of Patmos . The Nation of Islam theology claims that Yakub is the biblical Jacob . Mainstream Sunni and Shia Muslims do not have this belief, or anything similar to it. The story has caused disputes within the NOI during its history. Under its current leader Louis Farrakhan , the NOI continues to assert that the story of Yakub is true, stating that modern science is consistent with it.

In the beliefs of the Nation of Islam (NOI), Yakub (sometimes spelled Yacub or Yaqub ) was a black scientist who lived "6,600 years ago" and began the creation of the white race . He is said to have done this through a form of selective breeding referred to as "grafting", while living on the island of Patmos . The Nation of Islam theology states that Yakub is the biblical Jacob . The story has caused disputes within the NOI during its history. Under its current leader Louis Farrakhan , the NOI continues to assert that the story of Yakub is true, claiming that modern science is consistent with it.

Mythological black scientist For other people with the same name, see Yakub . In the beliefs of the Nation of Islam (NOI), Yakub (sometimes spelled Yacub or Yaqub ) was a black scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and began the creation of the white race . He is said to have done this through a form of selective breeding which is referred to as " grafting ", while he was living on the island of Patmos . The Nation of Islam's mythology states that Yakub is the biblical Jacob . The story has caused disputes within the NOI during its history. Under its current leader Louis Farrakhan , the NOI continues to assert that the story of Yakub is true, claiming that modern science is consistent with it. Despite the NOI's self-proclamations of consistency with modern science, there are no reputable scientific studies that support this assertion. Nation of Islam Research Group .

Figure in the mythology of the Nation of Islam Depiction of Yakub from Dwight York 's The Holy Tablets , 1996 Yakub (also spelled Yacub or Yaqub ) is a figure in the mythology of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and its offshoots. According to the NOI's doctrine, Yakub was a black Meccan scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and created the white race . According to the story, following his discovery of the law of attraction and repulsion , he gathered followers and began the creation of the white race through a form of selective breeding referred to as "grafting" on the island of Patmos ; Yakub died at the age of 150, but his followers continued the process after his death. According to the NOI, the white race was created with an evil nature, and were destined to rule over black people for a period of 6,000 years through the practice of "tricknology", which ended in 1914. The story and idea of Yakub originated in the writings of the NOI's founder Wallace Fard Muhammad . Scholars have variously traced its origins in Fard's thought to the idea of the Yakubites propounded by the Moorish Science Temple , the Battle of Alarcos , or alternatively say it may have been created originally with little basis in any other tradition. Scholars have argued the tale is an example of a black theodicy , with similarities to gnosticism with Yakub as demiurge , as well as the story of Genesis . It has also been interpreted as a reversal of the contemporary racist ideas that asserted the inferiority of black people. The story has, throughout its history, caused disputes within the NOI. Under its current leader Louis Farrakhan , the NOI continues to assert that the story of Yakub is true, not a metaphor, and has been proven by modern science. Several other splinter groups and other black nationalist religious organizations, including the Nuwaubian Nation , the Five-Percent Nation and the United Nation of Islam , share a belief in Yakub.