According to the story, at the start of human history, a variety of types of black people inhabited the moon; when a black … See more

The story of Yakub originated in the writings of Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam, in his doctrinal Q&A pamphlet Lost Found Moslem Lesson No. 2 from the early 1930s. It was deve… See more

The doctrine of Yakub was one of the reasons for splits in the Nation of Islam. Malcolm X in his Autobiography notes that, in his travels in the Middle East, many Muslims reacted with shock upon hearing about the d… See more

Harold Bloom in his book The American Religion argues that Yakub combines elements of the biblical God and the Gnostic concept of the Demiurge, saying that "Yakub has an irksome memorability as a crude but p… See more

The American author and playwright Amiri Baraka's play A Black Mass (1965) takes inspiration from the story of Yakub. In Baraka's version the experiment creates a single Frankenstein-like "white" monster who kills Ja… See more

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