Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari (born January 6, 1965 as Ray Allen Rudder) an American essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism.
Muhammad al-Ahari is a widely published writer. He has published more than sixty articles in Muslim American magazines and journals including the Message, Islamic Horizons, Indian Times, Minaret, al-Basheer, New Era, Svijest, Muslim Prison Brotherhood Newsletter, al-Taliban, The Light, Moorish Science Monitor, and Amexem Times and Seasons. Al-Ahari's more scholarly writings can be found in Islam Outside the Arab World, by David Westerlund; Ingvar Svanberg Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0-312-22691-8 OCLC: 41355839 where he has a chapter on Islam in Latin America; a Symposium paper on the life and teaching of Imam Kamil Avdich in the book Život i djelo Ćamila Avdića; 100 Seeds of Beirut—The Neglected Poetic Utterances of Warren Tartaglia (Walid al-Taha), and a paper in the Symposium papers from the Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey. During September 2005 he attended the First Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta,Turkey where he presented a paper on links between Freemasonry and the Bektashi community. The proceedings have been published as a scholarly volume and are available in pdf form at the following link.[1]
Al-Ahari has published more than twenty books on Islam and Muslim history through his Chicago-based Magribine Press and has had his works translated into Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, and Turkish. His original work includes a study of Bosnian American and other Ottoman Diaspora newspapers, a study of Freemasonry and Islam, and a forthcoming history of Islam in America.
References to writings by Muhammed al-Ahari:
Muhammed al-Ahari (1993). Bilali Muhammad: Muslim Juriprudist in Antebellum Georgia, translated by Muhammad Abdullah al-Ahari, Magribine Press. ISBN 0-415-91270-9. This was reprinted by Magribine Press by January 2010 and an expanded illustrated edition with Arabic text will be published in 2011. https://www.createspace.com/3431038
Muhammed al-Ahari (1992). African Muslim in Antebellum America and Their Education Theories. Magribine Press.
Muhammed al-Ahari (2006). Five Classic Muslim Slave Narratives. Magribine Press, Chicago.