Wallace Fard Muhammad - Controversy over identity

Wallace Fard Muhammad (1877-93? – after 1934) was a preacher and founder of the black nationalist movement the Nation of Islam (NOI), establishing its first mosque in Detroit. He preached his distinctive version of Islam there for three years before mysteriously disappearing in 1934. Alternative names on record are numerous: Wali Farad, Farrad Mohammed, W.D. Fard, and F. Mohammed Ali. Within the NOI he is generally known as Master Fard Muhammad. Wallace Fard Muhammad - Controversy over identity. Ac ...

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According to FBI records, Fard (pronounced "fuh-RAHD") Muhammad is identical to one Wallace Dodd Ford, also known as Wallace Dodd, whose birth is recorded by the FBI as February 25, 1891, of mixed European and Polynesian parentage. It is uncertain whether he was born in New Zealand or in Portland, Oregon, of parents who came from Hawaii. A recent researcher believes that Dodd was a New Zealander of half-Indian descent, born in 1893. [1] Dodd was certainly in the United States by the 1920s, when he was arrested and imprisoned for drug offenses, serving three years in San Quentin bet ...

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Taking the view that Fard and Dodd/Ford are one and the same person, his biography can be partially reconstructed up to 1934. His distinctive mixed parentage allowed him to at various times to claim to belong to several different races, often either African or Arab. This may have influenced his later doctrine of the "Asiatic Blackman" and to his emphasis on Islam as the authentic Black religion, though he did not originate these ideas. After his prison experience, he became involved with the Moorish Science Temple of America, founded by Timo ...

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