THE FOUNDER
Shaykh As-Sayyid Imam Ali Abdullah Muhammed
Shaykh & Imam of the Universal Masjid of Allah
DIPLOMAT
Founder and steward of the Kingdom of PeaceKeepers, and founder and executive director of CHW Workforce Development, Inc. A community health worker by calling — trained in Boston's great hospitals, seasoned on its streets, and seated now at the Royal Desk, where all peoples are received.
ONE MAN, THREE CHARGES
The Three Callings
FIRST CALLING
Imam
Universal Masjid of Allah. He leads the religious branch of the Kingdom — teacher, prayer leader, and keeper of the house's spiritual life. The gold-embroidered bisht he wears is the Imam's attire, and his alone.
SECOND CALLING
Shaykh & Founder
Kingdom of PeaceKeepers. He raised the Kingdom as a parent house over his family's ventures — eighteen houses under one standard — and stewards the Al Mahdi Dynasty Family Trust.
THIRD CALLING
Founder & Executive Director
CHW Workforce Development, Inc. Since 2021 he has led the training of community health workers in Boston — some 85 people trained — carrying care into Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.
I keep the peace by showing up. A health worker's first medicine is presence — you sit with people, you listen, and you do not leave until the need is met. That is the whole of my work: family, faith, and the neighborhood, in that order, every day.
— SHAYKH AS-SAYYID IMAM ALI ABDULLAH MUHAMMED
THE DOCUMENTED RECORD
A Life of Service, in Order
2010 – 2015
McLean Hospital
Service in behavioral health care — the foundation years, learning the work of sitting with people in crisis.
2016 – 2019
Brigham & Women's Hospital — Lead CHW
Lead Community Health Worker at one of Boston's great teaching hospitals, guiding patients and families through care.
2019 – 2022
Homeless Outreach Counselor
Street outreach to people without shelter — meeting the city's most vulnerable where they are, on their ground.
2021 – Present
Founder & Executive Director — CHW Workforce Development
Founded the workforce house of the Kingdom to train the next generation of community health workers for Boston.
Certified
COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER · MASSACHUSETTS
Instructor
RED CROSS CPR / AED
50 Certificates
ADDICTION · RECOVERY · TRAUMA CARE
80.5 Hours
DOCUMENTED TRAINING
THE IMAM'S ATTIRE
The Bisht Is His Alone
The black cloak with gold embroidery — the bisht, No. 4 among the garments of the house — belongs to the Imam's office. It is not a member's garment, it is not lent, and it is not worn by the houses. The member wardrobe of twelve garments is its own order, and the Royal Cloaks of the nobles are earned on their own terms.
On the streets of Boston he wears it as he has always walked them: among the people, in the neighborhoods the Kingdom serves.
The Imam on a Boston street at first light.
THE AL MAHDI DYNASTY & TRUST
The Succession
The Founder stewards the Al Mahdi Dynasty Family Trust, established in 2017. The houses were raised by family, and to family they pass: in succession stand his sons — Ali Reed Muhammed, first in line, and Ahmad Muhammed Ala Mahdi, second, whose share is protected while he is a minor.
AN AUDIENCE WITH THE FOUNDER
Write, Call, or Come
BY TELEPHONE
857-800-6078
BY LETTER
kingdomofpeacekeepers@gmail.com
IN PERSON
139 Charles Street, Suite 171, Boston, MA 02114