The ongoing search for a is not merely antiquarian. It reflects a modern hunger for alternative national narratives. Ali’s influence can be seen in:

Unlike the more widely available Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America (often called the "Circle 7 Koran"), Exhuming of a Nation is a shorter, sharper political and esoteric tract. Discerning fact from folklore is difficult, as the MSTA has historically guarded its internal documents. However, surviving fragments and community testimony describe the work as a .

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Ali taught that "Negro," "Black," and "Colored" were European classifications used to disconnect indigenous Americans of Moorish descent from their Asiatic heritage. Exhuming the Nation argues that these terms are the "grave clothes" that need removal.

The "exhumation" act is thus a ritual of recovery: digging up the pre-slavery, pre-colonial identity of the Moor to let it breathe again in the 20th century.