American Society of Muslims

The American Society of Muslims (ASM) was a Sunni Muslim organization in the United States that operated between 1988 and the early 2000s. It was created and led by Warith Deen Mohammed and its membership consisted predominantly of African-American Muslims.

Warith Deen Mohammad had been the son of Elijah Muhammad, the second leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI). After Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, Warith Deen Mohammad took control of the NOI. He increasingly rejected the NOI's idiosyncratic teachings and sought to align it more closely with Sunni Islam. In 1976, he renamed the NOI as the World Community of al-Islam in the West and then again, in 1978, to the American Muslim Mission. In 1985 he disbanded this Mission. He remained active in Sunni circles and in 1988 established his new organization, the ASM. Warith Deen Mohammed retired as the leader of the association in 2003 and established a charity called The Mosque Cares. Without him, the ASM functionally ceased to exist.