The exact date of his birth remains unknown because record keeping in rural Georgia for the descendants of slaves was not kept current, according to historians and family members. Clara Evans Muhammad (1899-1972), was a mother who had a mission that was so vastly different from the world she knew it changed the course of history. While this could tell us more about Asmas education than her age (she was, after all, a princess), it is clear that she was no child-bride. She married a Qurazi,[84] which means she must have been married before the Nadir tribe was banished from Medina in August 625. The claim that Elijah Muhammad took these women as wives is complicated by the fact that marriage is a state-recognized political union, which obviously was not the relationship that Elijah Muhammad had with these women. If Muhammad was 53 in 1 AH, then he was only 59 and not 60 in 7 AH; so calling Ramlahs age 35 rather than 36 may also be an approximation, much like Tabaris thirty-odd. [91] Subjectively, her behaviour seems immature and suited to a child aged 15 or 16. When Muslim historians speak of the Year of the Elephant, they always mean the year when Muhammad was born, which fell between 15 February 571 and 3 February 572. [72] It seems that he married Mulaykah during his fortnight of residence in the city, i.e. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad's ministry drew a steady stream of converts into his Nation, an organization designed to return the "so-called Negro" back to his glorious ancient past. Amrahs age is not extant in any sources surveyed for this study. The Prophet married Sawdah in Ramadan, in the tenth year after his prophethood. [34] The tradition never points to the fecundidity of Khadijah as a miracle, even though the biblical tradition records a similar miracle in the birth of Isaac to Abraham. Muhammads first marriage to Khadijah skews the the mean. See also, For a modern assessment of Aishas contribution to the. Indeed, Muhammad's other wives had to plead with him for treatment equal to that of Aisha: [11] The wives of Allah's Apostle (the blessing and peace of Allah be upon him) were in two groups. A noble match, he replied. . "Elijah Muhammad Dead; Black Muslim Leader, 77". But it all belongs to the same general period. There ages are unknown and there is not available data for calculation. Further, it is certain that the raid at al-Muraysi and consequent marriage to Juwayriyah took place not before, but after, Muhammads marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh. Obviously it was after Muhammad had consummated his marriage to Aisha in 623 CE. Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897 - February 25, 1975) Elijah Muhammad, known as the most prominent leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia. Traditionally, black males would not go to church because the church did not address their needs. At an early age, he witnessed extreme . She might have been considerably older than this minimum. In August 1931, at the urging of his wife, Elijah Poole attended a speech on Islam and black empowerment by Wallace Fard Muhammad (Wallace D. Fard). The prayer was unlawful for my aunt before the Messenger of Allah was born. Hakims statement, The prayer was unlawful for her, means she menstruated, but he is speaking as the people of Islam speak. He had killed her father the day of the conquest of Mecca [14 January 630]. It covers many family issues, including inheritance rights. The same nephew who said she died at age 53 also said: Thirty-five years before 5 AH brings us to a birth-year of 31 BH (20 June 592 - 8 June 593), a discrepancy of three years. After the disappearance, Elijah Muhammad told followers that Allah had come as Wallace Fard, in the flesh, to share his teachings that are a salvation for his followers. His first marriage was at the age of 25 to the 40-year-old Khadijah. Muhammad most likely considered divorcing Sawdah in December 626 or January 627 expressly because he wanted to marry a fifth woman but was trying to observe the limit of four wives. [10] The fact that he abolished intercalary months[11] suggests that no such practice had been known in Mecca and that the old Meccan year was much the same as the later Islamic year. [20], On January 30, 1975, Muhammad entered Mercy Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, suffering from a combination of heart disease, diabetes, bronchitis, and asthma. I curse not God. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah (or Robert) Poole on October 7, 1897, near Sandersville, Georgia. Many apologists claim that Muhammads wives were elderly and that he did not marry them for physical attraction. Children of its members attended classes at the newly created Muhammad University of Islam, but this soon led to challenges by boards of education in Detroit and Chicago, which considered the children truants from the public school system. Ultimately the court ruled against them.[47][48][49]. The prophet Muhammad had 19 or more wives or concubines according to the traditional Islamic sources. If she was about 30 in 4 AH, she was born in October 596, plus or minus a few years. [19] In 1972, Muhammad told followers that the Nation of Islam had a net worth of $75 million. Tabari writes that Muhammads poet, Hassan ibn Thabit, also claimed to be 120 years old. If both these details are correct, it is possible that she was then 60 was only meant as an approximation. Is it really plausible that so many persons (all of them male) lived to be 120? Zaynab was the first of the Prophets wives to die, and Umm Salama [Hind] was the last. At 78 years old, Elijah Muhammad height not available right now. This makes his age at death no more than 106. Eighty-four years before 59 AH brings us to the year between 26 April 597 and 15 April 598 and a median birthdate of 20 October 597. [30] The only response available to him was, The Quran is my miracle,[31] but the Islamic tradition seems not to have accepted this answer and numerous other traditions claim that he performed a variety of miracles. He purchased land and businesses to provide housing and employment for young black males. Afterward, Poole said he approached Fard and asked if he was the "Mahdi" (redeemer), Fard responded that he was, but that his time had not yet come. in the second half of January 630. memorial page for Elijah Muhammad (7 Oct 1897-25 Feb 1975), Find a Grave Memorial ID 2478, citing Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens South, Glenwood, Cook County . He used to see me before the veil was prescribed for us, so when he saw me he exclaimed in astonishment, The apostles wife! while I was wrapped in my garments. Sawdah bint Zamaa died in Medina in Shawwal of 54, during the caliphate of Muawiya. [6][14][15], On May 8, 1942, Elijah Muhammad was arrested for failure to register for the draft during World War II. There is no obvious reason for this marriage beyond the documented fact that Al-Fadl was susceptible to pretty girls. The Formative Years: 1899-1930. by Zakiyyah Muhammad. The Islamic historical tradition is quite clear that she married Muhammad at a mature age. This fell between 11 April and 9 May (median = 25 April 623). Aisha was the youngest bride whom Muhammad married. In the 1930s, Muhammad formally established the Nation of Islam, a religious movement that originated under the leadership and teachings of Wallace Fard Muhammad and that promoted black supremacy, pride, economic empowerment, and racial segregation. His parents were ex-slaves who worked as sharecroppers on a cotton plantation; his father was also a Baptist preacher. [Ramlah] married the Prophet Muhammad in 1 AH, although she did not actually come to live with him in Medina until 7 AH, when the Prophet was 60 years old and. During this investigation, Malcolm X learned 7 of those 8 girls had become pregnant as a result of this. [Muhammad] cast lots between his wives which of them should accompany him. Muhammad workforce in Cordele, GA with his 13 siblings. We asked Hakim ibn Hizam which of them was older, the Messenger of Allah or Khadijah? Since Asmas family had adopted Jewish cultural norms over a century earlier,[73] it is safe to say that she had passed puberty at the time of her first marriage. Based on the above data, it is also possible to calculate Muhammad's age as a bridgegroom in each other cases mentioned above. [7], While he was in Detroit, Poole began taking part in various black nationalist movements within the city. Maymunah bint Al-Harith, http://wikiislam.net/index.php?title=Ages_of_Muhammads_Wives_at_Marriage&oldid=135622, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0. "[28] The New York Times wrote, "in further criticism of Mr. Kennedy, the Muslim leader cited the murders of Patrice Lumumba, Congo leader, of Medgar Evers, civil rights leader, and of the Negro girls bombed earlier this year in a Birmingham, Alabama, church. If Hafsah died at the age of 60 Islamic years, she would have been born in 607 (median = 4 July 607), two years later than Ibn Saad claims. While it may well be true that most Arabs only knew their age to the year and not to the day, there is some evidence that Aishas family had noted at least the month in which she was born. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, the seventh of thirteen children of William Poole Sr. (1868-1942), a Baptist lay preacher and sharecropper, and Mariah Hall (1873-1958), a homemaker and sharecropper.. Elijah's education ended at the fourth grade, after which he went to work in sawmills and brickyards. In the modern world, this would suggest that she was 65 or 70, which may explain why modern historians have assumed she was very elderly. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elijah_Muhammad&oldid=1141790260, at least 23 (8 with Evans, 15 with others), including, Lucille Rosary Karriem Muhammad: three girls, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 20:34. Tabari vaguely states that he died in the caliphate of Muawiya,[19] which was between 40 and 60 AH (February 661 - April 680). Safiyah was yet another bride who was young enough to be Muhammads granddaughter, most likely still being in her teens while Muhammad was in his 50's. [23] What is more, his mother was a close friend of Khadijahs. He was one of 13 children of William and Mariah (Hall) Poole. Muhammad acquired these five women in the last five years of his life, so his mean age as bridegroom has to be raised. [24], After the letters were sent, 7 of Khaalis' family members were murdered at the Hanafi Madh-Hab Center. However, this is not really a third tradition about Khadijahs age, for the context suggests that the number 50 is only an approximation. \" - The Hon Minister Louis Farrakhan, Closing The Gap Pg.162LIKE! But when I open my mouth to speak, I curse no one. In fact the early historians give numerous suggestions for birth-dates other than the 12th, which the calculator tells was in any case a Friday and not a Monday. Upon his death, his son Warith Deen Mohammed succeeded him. His wisdom is infinite; capable of accomplishing anything that his brain can conceive. Elijah Muhammads Youngest Wife was 23 when Malcolm X called him out AfroThunder Jan 14, 2020 Forums The Culture Black America Forum Prev 1 2 3 4 C chutazb Team Owner Joined Sep 1, 2008 Messages 6,850 Reactions 58,836 1,463 2,763 Alleybux 35,392 Feb 18, 2020 #91 Hey Auntie said: @Tammyboo @MarisolC @AfroThunder Her tribe lived near Mecca; they had resisted him at Mecca on 14 January; and Muhammad left Mecca on 28 January to fight the Hawazinites and Thaqifites. Add It Up! Why should Aisha, with her extraordinary memory,[54] her penchant for details and her talent for arithmetic,[55] have been any exception? Muhammad Ali Jr. (son with Khalilah Ali) Year of Birth: 1972 He is the fourth child to the great star and also the only biological son born to Ali. Elijah Muhammad was portrayed by Al Freeman Jr. in Spike Lee's 1992 motion picture Malcolm X. Albert Hall, who played the composite character "Baines" in Malcolm X, later played Muhammad in Michael Mann's 2001 film, Ali. So we already know that Sawdah was pre-menopausal in 620 CE. [51] If Muhammad had not been contemplating marriage to a fifth woman, there would have been no point in divorcing Sawdah, for she was no trouble to him at home. Mulaykahs Probable Age = about 13 years. 12 were accused of the crime. From these wives, two bore him children: Khadijah and Maria al-Qibtiyya. This was between 4 February and 4 March 629 (median = 18 February), indicating that her age at marriage was 26, plus or minus a year. This means it is quite difficult to calculate comparative dates. Early years and life before Nation of Islam, Malcolm X's public response to the assassination of President Kennedy. Asma was once again young enough to be Muhammads granddaughter. Chronology of the Nation of Islam, Toure Muhammad. Muhammad was born Elijah Robert Poole on October 7, 1897 in Sandersville, GA. His father, William, was a sharecropper and his mother, Mariah, was a domestic worker. But presumption is not fact. that she was only at the beginning of the old age period of her life. This was after Khadijahs death and before his marriage to Aisha. "We got in the car, and I said I needed to stop for something to eat . However, the age of her first husband is, however, recorded. Her marriage was consummated in the tenth month of the first year AH. Muhammad grew up in the segregated South and worked alongside his family as a sharecropper. However, it will be convenient to compare Muhammads calendar with the Gregorian calendar, which is internationally the most widely accepted and used civil calendar.[6][7][8]. Elijah served as the inspiration and mentor to several personalities, such as Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, and Muhammad Ali, who led the movement further. The Prophet married Hafsah in Shabaan 30 months after [the. Also five members of The Nation of Islam walked into The Audubon Ballroom and murdered him which Malcolm X predicted "It will be The Black Muslims who will kill me" Zainab bint Huzaima was 60 years old Of course, it is impossible for a marriage with a sixty-year old woman to have passion. WATCH NOW. Note that this narrator was the grandson of Zaynabs own nephew. Farrakhan was disappointed when he was not named Elijah Muhammad's successor following his death. So we can express Aishas birthday as 27 January 614, plus or minus three weeks. Muhammads mean age at marriage was 53 years and 8 months. [24] McGee went on to form a Sunni Muslim sect and changed his name to Hamaas Abdul Khaalis. (Although there is a variant tradition that she did not die until 56 AH,[65] this tradition does not state her age at death, so we shall ignore it.) The only consistency amongst the reports is that Maymunah lived to be about 80. According to this, she was born in 30 BH, i.e., between 9 June 593 and 28 May 594 (median = 2 December 593). Age Difference = 9 years, plus or minus a few. 30 BH fell between 9 June 593 and 28 May 594, giving Ramlah a median birthdate of 2 December 593. In addition, Elijah shows up near the end of the Hebrew scriptures in 2 Chronicles 21:12-15 (letter telling Judah's king Jehoram about his forthcoming and rather gruesome death). [24], The letters stated blacks had been better off "from a psychological point of view" before Fard He left home at age sixteen to travel and work at odd jobs. The second problem with Khadijahs age is that there is a strong alternative tradition, one that the scholars of hadith claim originates from no less a person than Abdullah ibn Abbas. This is not a serious discrepancy, but it does mean that one of these ages is only an approximation. Suscribe to our new youtube channel!! Judge Henry Budzinski ruled that $3.3 million in assets and $2.4 million in interest accrued since Muhammad`s death Feb. 25, 1975, must be turned over to his estate by Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank . [27], On December1, 1963, when asked for a comment about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, MalcolmX said that it was a case of "chickens coming home to roost". Yes, I'm in great pain. 26 Elephant was 28 BH. During his childhood in the racially segregated South, Poole received his basic education at a public school but soon dropped out to help his family earn a living in . Elijah Muhammad, Jr., served as Asst. Yet he also demanded that Black men learn to love and respect their women . Elijah Muhammad, the leader and Supreme Minister of an organization known as the Nation of Islam (the Nation), died in 1975 and was survived by a number of legitimate and illegitimate children .A number of his legitimate and illegitimate children (the Estate) filed a recovery citation proceeding on behalf of the estate against the Bank, asserting This makes hypocrites the most hated of all people." Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America 2 likes CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - Thousands of men, women and children representing diverse races, cultures, religions and ideologies gathered at Mosque Maryam to pay tribute, to honor, share reflections and express gratitude for the life and impacting legacy of Mother Tynnetta Muhammad, wife of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad at her Janaaza (Islamic funeral service) held Feb. 24. In the culture of the medieval Arabs, when a womans value to society depended on her capacity to bear children, a woman only had three life-stages: childhood (before she could bear children), adulthood (childbearing age) and old age (when she was past childbearing). Ahmed, S. Prophet Muhammad and Aisha Siddiqa., Akhter, J. If Zaynab was 53 in 20 AH, she was born in 34 BH between 23 July 589 and 11 July 590 (median = 15 January 590). This doesn't seem to be correct, as not one, but four or five of Muhammads widows were still alive in 51 AH (Hind, Aisha, Sawdah, Safiyah and perhaps Juwayriyah) according to other sources. Yet even his enemies were willing to go along with the hearsay. Elijah Muhammad was born Elijah (or Robert) Poole on October 7, 1897, near Sandersville, Georgia. The exact date of this victory is not recorded, but the general period of the siege is clear. According to the traditional Islamic sources, he divorced one woman before consummating the marriage[1] and broke off another courtship[2] solely because he decided that these women were too old for him, and he continued to pursue teenagers until the day he died. The Gregorian calendar did not exist in Muhammads day, so reporting dates in Gregorian style is an anachronism. This same incident confirmed the limitation of the number of wives to four,[45] so it must have been written before Muhammad was given permission to take a fifth concurrent wife[46] on 27 March 627. She was 15 years older than him, with children from two previous marriages. In 1923, the Poole family was among hundreds of thousands of black families forming the First Great Migration leaving the oppressive and economically troubled South in search of safety and employment. Later tales, omitted from the earliest histories, claimed that he had multiplied food like Jesus Christ,[32] transfigured wood into iron, reminiscent of Elishas retrieval of the borrowed axe-head,[33] or cursed his enemys camel to sink in the sand. Into thy hands do I command my spirit. Muhammad died on February 25, 1975, after a period of declining health. . They all seem to have been teenagers significantly younger than the mean. By the time Muhammad married Mulaykah, Aisha had become 16. And we will state here that Sawdah was the oldest bride whom Muhammad ever married. Tabari and S'ad both report similar ages for her though: According to the above sources Zaynab was therefore married on or soon after 18 February 625. Islamic apologists and du'aah often make the claim that he married many of these women because they were widows, elderly, or otherwise destitute and in need of his aide. LEAVE A COMMENT! But to label these two groups as the middle-aged and the elderly gives atypical definitions to these terms. Mr. Muhammad (PBUH) had 13 wives. Yahya ibn Mandah even wrote a book entitled Those of the Companions who Lived 120 Years, in which he lists fourteen 120-year-old Muslims. Her marriage to Muhammad was consummated upon his return from Khaybar in July 628.[68]. The apostle on that day was 53 years of age, that being 13 years after God called him. Aishas Median Age at Consummation = 9 years and 3 months. But if she was only about 40 on her wedding day, she must have survived to her mid-90s, which is impressive but plausible (but once again emblamatic of the problem of the Islamic tradition attributing extremely and even absurdly long lives to the companions and taabi'uun). Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America 2 likes Like "You can never trust hypocrites. 1, but only after battles with other potential leaders, including his brother. It does not follow that she was the youngest wife in the household. Nevertheless, for the sake of calculation, a two-year range for Juwayriyahs birthdate, between 9 January 607 and 17 December 608, will be used. During that time, his wife, Clara, and trusted aides ran the organization; Muhammad transmitted his messages and directives to followers in letters. The girl whom Al-Fadl married in 630 was his cousin, Safiya bint Mahmiyah.[80]. While we do not really know Maymunahs death-date, and therefore her birth-date, for the purposes of calculation Ibn Kathirs more conservative tradition will be accepted here. To be conservative, we will say that she was 20. Elijah Muhammad, the most prominent leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia, on October 7, 1897.He was the son of sharecropper and Baptist minister Wallace Poole and his wife, Mariah. December 16, 2013. Children Names Of Prophet Muhammad PBUH you will find in this article, that he had 7 children from 2 of his wives Khadija (RA) and Maria (RA). Safiyah apparently knew that she had been born in Rabi'-Awwal 17 years earlier, though she did not know whether it had been late or early in the month and therefore did not know whether she had reached 17 full years on the particular night when she married Muhammad. Aisha was married in the first year AH (19 July 622 - 7 July 623) and widowed in the eleventh (1 April 632 - 20 March 633). Of course, even this age assumes that he really was as old as 60 at the time of his conversion, which we now have licence to doubt. It is practically certain that the sentence Sawdah became old really only means Sawdah reached menopause.[43]. Given the other evidence this is likely correct, but there is no data to support this conclusion. His controversial views on race and his call for blacks having an independent nation for themselves, made him a controversial figure, both within and outside the Nation of Islam. When she arrived in Medina in the summer of 630,[75] she must have been at least 14 years old and perhaps considerably older. We do not know how old Amrah was in 631, but Al-Fadl was 17, so it is reasonable to suggest that Amrah was about 15 a couple of years younger than Aisha. Malcolm X Reloaded: Who Really Assassinated Malcolm X? wife Amy Nuttall 'discovered the . [12] Since children generally know the ages of their playmates, it is assumed that Hakim would have known the age of an aunt who was only two years older than himself. Elijah Muhammads Youngest Wife and she was the secretary Malcolm X was talking about when he made his statements about Elijah Muhammad to the media. In 1977, Louis Farrakhan resigned from Warith Deen's reformed organization and reinstituted the original Nation of Islam upon the foundation established by Wallace Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad. Perhaps, when her daughter Fatima was weaned in 607,[37] Khadijah was still a few months short of forty and that was why her childbearing ceased. If Khadijah was only two to three years older than Muhammad, this makes sense of a great deal. The traditions about Maymunah are hard to reconcile: This would place her death in the year between 4 October 680 and 22 September 681 and her birth in 21 or 20 BH between 4 March 602 and 10 February 604 (median = 21 February 603). She was the only wife who was close to his own age, as opposed to being significantly younger. Muhammad was in prison from 1942 to 1946 for sedition and so his wife ran the organization while he was in jail. [11][12][13], In 1934, the Nation of Islam published its first newspaper, Final Call to Islam, to educate and build membership. 4. So Muhammad married Safiyah early in Rabi-Awwal 7 AH (mid-July 628). They were simply saying, Im really, really old.. It is a little strange that such a young man would so soon afterwards take on a second wife, but it is seems that he did so willingly, for Amrah was of no political importance. Thusly neither 51 nor 61 AH can be confidently taken as her death date. Muhammad confirmed the rumors in 1963, attempting to justify his behavior by referring to precedents set by Biblical prophets. Modern commentaries claiming that Zaynab was in late middle age[64] thus seem to be off the mark. [The apostle] attacked the Mustaliq branch of the Khuzaa tribe in. Quick references to Elijah appear in 2 Kings 3:11, 2 Kings 9:36, 2 Kings 10:10, and 2 Kings 10:17. Towards the end of his life, Muhammad acquired a few women whose age in years was even younger than Aishas. They were attending the Nation of Islam's Saviours' Day 2023Youth Summit, themed "WeAreAt War," called forth by the Hon- orable Minister Louis Farrakhan. . Children via his wife, Clara Muhammad: The only aim of this marriage was to help someone who was left alone. Al-Islam: Life of the Prophet, chapter 25, Hussein (2011). A further complication is that nobody is certain that the pre-Hijri year was exactly the same as the Muslim year that was standardised after the Hijra. He was succeeded as head of the NOI by his son, Wallace Muhammad, who renamed the organization as the World Community of al-Islam in the West. [22] He was a great source of ahadith and his word would normally be accepted without question. 1 book 1 #60 p. 127, that Ramlah (Umm Habiba) was 23 years younger than Muhammad. She was still young enough to have been Muhammads daughter. In 1972 the Nation of Islam took controlling interest in a bank, the Guaranty Bank and Trust Co. Nation of Islam-owned schools expanded until, by 1974, the group had established schools in 47 cities throughout the United States. It is finished. Dare to read. Warith disbanded the Nation of Islam in 1976 and founded an orthodox mainstream Islamic organization, that came to be known as the American Society of Muslims. Her age in solar years could have been anywhere between 26 years 4 months and 27 years 4 months. [38] It explains why, after twenty years of marriage, he began thinking about younger women,[39] for Khadijah would have been at that time menopausal and first losing her looks. She was a wife, mother, sister, aunt, grandmother, Believer, soldier, servant, Muslim. [21] Of course, no records have survived from pre-Islamic Medina; it was only hearsay that attributed this great age to Abu Afak. So the median wedding date is September 631. She was married in Shabaan 6 AH, a median date of 2 January 628. This marriage lasted for 25 years. He never called it a blessing similar to Sarahs gestation of Isaac[35] or Elizabeths of John the Baptist. The real points are that (1) Aisha was a prepubescent child, and (2) Muhammad was old enough to be her grandfather. He was Muhammads cousin, Al-Fadl ibn Abbas. [The apostle] attacked the Mustaliq branch of the Khuzaa tribe He went out and met them at a watering-place of theirs called al-Muraysi , I asked Aisha about the marriage of the Messenger of Allah to Zaynab bint Jahsh. Poole soon became an ardent follower of Fard and joined his movement, as did his wife and several brothers. [74] Further, the text suggests that her first husband had been dead for some months or even years. [25], Rumors were circulating among Nation of Islam members that Elijah was conducting extramarital affairs with young Nation secretarieswhich would constitute a serious violation of Nation teachings. (1960). Problems with the Chronology and Final Calculation. 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