Wallace Fard Muhammad
#63,725
Most Influential Person Across History
American Islamic minister
Why Is Wallace Fard Muhammad Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wallace Fard Muhammad, also known as 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 taught an idiosyncratic form of what he considered Islam to members of the city's black population. In 1934, he disappeared from public record, and Elijah Muhammad succeeded him as leader of the Nation of Islam.
