The Tribe of Shabazz relocated to the rich Nile valley of Egypt and then to the present seat of the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Arabia.
[1] It was a technologically advanced society, but one faction was led by Shabazz himself into previously unoccupied areas of central Africa because he wanted them to be hardened.
Malcolm X in a 1962 speech stated that: "He wanted the people to undergo a form of life that would make them tough and hard, and the other scientists wouldn't agree with him.
[2]A scientist named Yakub was a member of the Meccan branch of the tribe and, according to Fard, was the creator of the white race.
However, the name's etymology is possibly also related to Indo-European as there is a similar Persian name, Shahbāz (شهباز) meaning 'royal falcon' or 'eagle' (a contraction of shāh, "king" and bāz "hawk, falcon"), popular among Bosnian, Turkish, Indian, and Pakistani Muslims.
Karl Evanzz, author of the books The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X (1992) and The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad (1999), lays out a variety of theories that connects the name to locations and names in several of his alleged places of birth.
His World War I draft card lists him as being born in the district of Shinkay in the Zabul Province.