Yakub (also spelled Yacub or Yaqub) is a figure in the mythology of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and its offshoots. According to the NOI's doctrine, Yakub was a black Meccan scientist who lived 6,600 years ago and created the white race.
Yakub, on the order of his brother Bayezid, was strangled and killed. [2 ] The failed rebellion and resultant civil war that their brother had earlier caused may have influenced Bayezid's decision to kill Yakub.[ citation needed]