# Wallace Fard Muhammad

Missing · 1877

Wallace Fard Muhammad or W. D. Fard ( fə-RAHD; reportedly born February 26, c. 1877 – disappeared c. 1934) was a religious leader who was the founder of the Nation of Islam. Fard arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an ambiguous background and several aliases and proselytized syncretic Islamic teachings to the city's black population. His group taught followers to abandon their old "slave names" in favor of new names…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=268705
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/wallace-fard-muhammad-w268705

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