Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari (born January 6, 1965, as Ray Allen Rudder) is an American essayist, historian, teacher, and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups, Bosniaks, and modern occultism.
Al-Ahari began writing about the history of Islam in the United States in the 1980s and published several articles with the journals Minaret and Meditations.
He attended the first Alevi-Bektashi Conference in Isparta, Turkey in 2005, where he presented a paper on the links between the Freemasons and the Bektashi community.
His works have also been quoted in (Dis)forming the American Canon: African-Arabic slave narratives (1993) and African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles (1997).
He has been an editor for Moorish Science Monitor, The Islamic Cultural Center-Greater Chicago Newsletter, and Meditations.