Ava Muhammad

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title: "Ava Muhammad" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["nation-of-islam-religious-leaders", "living-people", "1951-births", "american-lawyers", "american-women-lawyers", "21st-century-african-american-people", "21st-century-african-american-women", "20th-century-african-american-people", "20th-century-african-american-women", "black_supremacists", "american_conspiracy_theorists", "female-islamic-religious-leaders", "women's-firsts", "american-women-religious-leaders"] description: "American Islamic minister" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Muhammad" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American Islamic minister ::

Ava Muhammad (November 9,1951 – 25 August 2022) was an American Black Muslim. In 1998, she became the first female Minister to preside over a mosque and region in the history of the Nation of Islam (NOI). Her job as national spokesperson for Minister Farrakhan was among the most prominent in the organization — a post formerly held by Malcolm X under former Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Minister Ava Muhammad was also a member of the Muslim Girls Training (MGT).

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1. josh.barker. (2022-09-01). "Nation of Islam mourns the loss of Minister Dr. Ava Muhammad".
2. "Groundbreaking Conference Promises To Shift The Nation's Consciousness". Prlog.org.
3. (2009). "African American Religious Cultures". Bloomsbury Academic.
4. (2006). "Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Native American creation stories". Indiana University Press.
5. "Groundbreaking Conference Promises To Shift The Nation's Consciousness". Prlog.org.

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