Intro
Kareema Akram (aka Hannah Dudley of Savannah, Georgia, See Dannin) converted to Ahmadiyya in St. Louis in roughly 1923. Just a year later, she was married to Wali Akram. They moved to Ohio together in 1925 and worked under Sheikh Ashiq Ahmad (another pseudo Ahmadi) for a few years. They moved to Cleveland in 1927 and began getting followers in their pseudo-Ahmadiyya cult.
In June (23-25th) of 1932, Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali was in Cleveland lecturing at different halls (See the Moslem Sunrise of Oct-1931/Jan-1932, pages 18-20). It’s unclear if he met Wali Akram.
Muhammad Yusuf Khan was scheduled to speak in Cleveland (See “Moslem Mosque” at 5217 Wodland [sic] Ave. S.E. ,see “Mohammedan to Speak,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, January 30, 1933, 5)(See Bowen). The address should have been 5311 Woodland Ave, seems like a typo. Wali Akram was there and the location was rented, not a Mosque either, a mission house. Sufi Muti-ur-Rahman Bengali didn’t mention a branch in Cleveland until March-1935, and this was the mission house/mosque that was owned and operated by Wali Akram, the pseudo-Qadiani-Ahmadi. The ROR of Sep-1933, has a report from Dr. Muhammad Yusuf from America about the spread of Ahmadiyya in Cleveland, Ohio, they allege to have 300 Ahmadi’s in Cleveland. Dr. Muhammad Yusuf gave 4 lectures at the Ahmadiyya Hall. He also mentions how Sheikh Nasir Ahmad and Sheikh Muhammad Omar (Omar Ahmad of Braddock?) are working with him, both were formerly Christian priests. Dr. Muhammad Yusuf also alleges that some Turks and Arab Muslims might have converted to Ahmadiyya and caused a stir.
In 1936, Wali Akram and his entire family left Ahmadiyya, this was part of the Schism in Ahmadiyya in Pittsburgh (1934) and Cleveland (1934-1936).
Kareema Akram lived in and around Cleveland until she died.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Their children children
4 girls, 6 boys, could be more
Rasool Akram (see Dannin), Rasool Akram, interview by author, Cleveland, April 26, 1990.
Mahmud Akram (see Dannin).
Khadija Akram, her son was Imam Abbas Akram, in 1988, he succeeded his grandfather as the new imam of the Cleveland Mosque.
Mubarka Akram.
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His wife
“….when not busy running the family grocery store or tending to their children, Kareema Akram assisted him in mosque affairs. Both husband and wife had attained enough proficiency in Arabic to teach it along with Quranic recitation. Since Islamic etiquette meant respecting a modest separation between the sexes, Kareema conducted classes right in her kitchen, where women might bring their babies and young children…” (See Dannin).
Akram and his wife Kareema raised a large family of twelve children, sixty grandchildren, and more than seventy-five great-grandchildren, all of whom were educated in the Muslim tradition.
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