Shabazz (Arabic: شَبَازّ, romanized: Shabāzz) is the name of a supposed black architect whose tribe founded the populations of Africa according to the doctrine of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
After returning from his pilgrimage in Mecca, he finally adopted the title and name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, seen as symbolic of his spiritual journey to Orthodox Islam.
There is also a similar (but etymologically unrelated) Persian name, Shahbâz, meaning "royal falcon".
Indicating "royalty and nobility", the name is popular with Bosnian, Turkish, Indian and Pakistani Muslims.
[1] In his book Message to the Blackman in America, Elijah Muhammad wrote that African Americans (then called Negroes) are descended from an ancient tribe by that name: [God] has declared that we [the so-called Negroes] are descendants of the Asian Black Nation and the tribe of Shabazz.