Traveling With a Wise Woman
Price range: $ 52 through $ 75
Experience rare, lost, interviews of Mother Tynnetta Muhammad conducted November 2006 in Mexico as she narrates her childhood, cultural background, visionlike experiences, and relationships in her own words.
Details
Hardcover Collector’s Edition: A definitive archival volume featuring a premium cloth-bound cover and high-gloss dust jacket. 137 pages with rare photos throughout, with a size of 6″ x 9″. Compiled, edited, and annotated by Hakeem Khaaliq. This edition is printed in vibrant full color, on gallery-grade paper to preserve the historical photography and legacy of Mother Tynnetta Muhammad in exquisite detail.
Metaphysical Digital Edition: Experience history in the first person. This interactive digital edition features the original, archival voice recordings of Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, allowing you to hear her biography in her own words. More than an audiobook, this “living archive” synchronizes her voice with a searchable text transcript and real-time highlighting, preserving a primary source record of her life and her work alongside historic icons such as Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali.
Compatible with Apple and Android Devices Only. Kindle does not support this digital format.
Apple Devices: Download your file from your order.
Tap the file to open it in the Books app.
Press Play to hear the narration on pages that include it.
Android Devices: Install Colibrio Reader for free from the Google Play Store. After it installs, return to your order and download your book file. When the file finishes downloading, open it in Colibrio Reader. Press Play to hear the narration on pages that include it.
A Gift Like No Other! The Mother’s Day Bundle:
Give the gift of a living legacy. This Mother’s Day exclusive includes our high-end collector’s hardcover and the revolutionary interactive metaphysical digital book. Hear the scholar’s life story in her own words—a perfect tribute to the scholars, mothers, and history-makers in your life. Offer ends May 31st!
Description
Mother Tynnetta Muhammad occupies a singular place in modern Black intellectual history. As the first Muslim woman columnist in major newspapers and a prolific author of books, essays, and cultural studies, she helped shape American understandings of Islam during the civil rights era. Alongside contemporaries such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, she contributed to expanding public awareness of the experiences and intellectual agency of Black Muslim women in the United States. She was also one of the few women invited to address the audience at the historic Million Man March, speaking alongside figures such as Dr. Betty Shabazz, Maya Angelou, and Rosa Parks.
Her artistic and scholarly work extended across multiple disciplines. Despite having no formal or informal musical training, she composed the Ta Ha (The Final Call) Symphonic Suite, a full orchestral work performed internationally, including on the Washington Mall during the 10th Anniversary of the Million Man March with Grammy Award–winner India Arie. Her cultural research and international engagements were recognized with honors abroad, including the Gerege Diploma of the World Academy of Chinggis Khaan in Mongolia, awarded for her contributions to promoting cultural understanding and intellectual exchange.
Her life within the Nation of Islam placed her at the center of a controversy that, for many years, overshadowed her work and the depth of her contributions. As a young woman in a close relationship with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, widely regarded as the most powerful independent Black man in American history, and the mother of four of his children, she held a role widely discussed but never clarified by her directly. In this book, she addresses their long‑misunderstood relationship, describing it as a spiritual partnership shaped by shared purpose, love, discipline, and a loyalty that endured long after his passing.
Honored in Detroit with the naming of Tynnetta Muhammad Avenue, her legacy stands as one of the most significant contributions made by any Black Muslim woman in the United States. This book serves as a scholarly edition of a historic oral narrative, offering researchers, students, and readers unprecedented access to her firsthand account.
