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Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard or Master Fard Muhammad (/ f ə ˈ r ɑː d /; [citation needed] reportedly born February 26, c. 1877 – disappeared c. 1934), was the founder of the Nation of Islam.
Jan 12, 2023 · Fard, also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad, had a murky past. He said he was from Mecca (now in Saudi Arabia), attended Oxford University, and had planned on becoming a diplomat before he began his true calling, per the Detroit Metro Times. The FBI would later dispute this version of Fard's past.
Wallace D. Fard (born c. 1877, Mecca—died 1934?) was the Mecca-born founder of the Nation of Islam (sometimes called Black Muslim) movement in the United States. Fard immigrated to the United States sometime before 1930.
Fard, W. D. (c. 1877-1934), religious and political leader. Master W. D. Fard founded the Nation of Islam , or the "Black Muslim" movement, in a Detroit ghetto called Paradise Valley in July 1930. His original name was Wallace D. Fard, but he was also known by other aliases, such as Farad Muhammad, F. Muhammad Ali, Wali Farrad, and Professor Fard.
Jun 11, 2008 · Wallace Fard, also known as W. Farad Muhammad, the Prophet, was founder the first Temple of Islam which evolved into the Nation of Islam or the Black Muslims. Authentic, documented information about Fard is very scarce and there is only a four year period (1930-1934) in which dependable information exists. According to Fard (although there is ...
Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as W. F. Muhammad, Wallace D. Fard or Master Fard Muhammad, was the founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an ambiguous background and several aliases, and proselytized idiosyncratic Islamic teachings to the city's black population.
Apr 1, 2021 · The Nation of Islam (NOI) is an Islamic and Black nationalist movement founded in Detroit, Michigan by Wallace D. Fard Muhammad in 1930. His mission was to "teach the downtrodden and defenseless Black people a thorough knowledge of God and of themselves."
His followers used the mysterious circumstances of Fard's disappearance to deify him further, maintaining that he was God, although his successor as the Nation's head, Elijah Muhammad (1897 – 1975), claimed to have accompanied him to the airport when he was deported.
Nov 23, 2022 · The report explored the murky history of Wallace D. Fard, known as Master Fard Muhammad by adherents, noting that he had once told the Detroit police that he was “the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.”
Sep 10, 2008 · Born Wallace D. Mohammed in Hamtramck, Mich., on Oct. 30, 1933, he was the seventh of the eight children of Elijah Poole, who took the surname Mohammed. The son later changed his own name to ...
