Muhammad Ali that year, before converting to Islam after 1961. At age 22, in 1964, he won the world heavyweight championship from Sonny Liston in a major upset. He then changed his name from Cassius Clay, which he called his "slave name", to Muhammad Ali. He set an example of racial pride for African Americans and resistance to white domination during the Civil Rights Movement. In 1966, two years after winning the heavyweight title, Ali further antagonized the white establishment by refusing to be drafted into the U.S. military, citing his religious beliefs, and opposition to American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Muhammed al-Ahari single-issue periodical "Meditations" from the Bilali Muhammad Research Society. When Muhammed returned to Chicago in 1990, he attended the American Islamic College for two additional years and restarted his Magribine Press with an edited edition of Muhammed Alexander Rusell Webb's "Islam in America" (1993), an edited edition of Shaykh Daoud's "al-Islam, the True Faith of Humanity" (2003), and his translation of the Fiqh text called the "Ben Ali Diary" or the Bilali Document, written by Bilali Muhammad of Sapelo Island, Georgia. In 2005 Muhammed continued his work of reprinting edited, annotated editions of early American Muslim texts with the "100