Ali, Noble Drew(Timothy Drew, Sheik Sharif Abdul Ali)

1886 - Drew was born in North Carolina on January 8, 1886.

1902 - Joined a travelling circus at the age of sixteen. He became a stage magician.

1905 - He learned mysticism and had a lost version of the Qur'an.

1913 - Founded Moorish Science Temple of America in Newark, New Jersey and believed that Chicago would become a second Mecca. The Moorish Science temple was founded on a teaching of the Moors as a blueprint of Freemasonry. Strategically structured infinite wisdom and messages in his literature as well as on the cover of the Moorish Holy Koran as a symbol of a broken circle with a number seven in the center.

1928 - Attended the Pan American Conference in Havana, Cuba.

1929 - He died a mysterious death.