A traveling silk seller named W.D. Fard appeared in the Detroit ghetto on July 4, 1930. Fard said he had come from Mecca, and he proclaimed a new belief, a variant of traditional Islam.

Wallace Fard Muhammad, the founder of the Black Muslim movement, concluded the tutorial of his designated successor, Elijah Muhammad, in 1934. That was the year Fard, who under the Nation of Islam ...

W.D. Mohammed, who died yesterday in Chicago at 74, transformed the original Nation of Islam, led by his father, Elijah Muhammad, into a mainstream Sunni Muslim organization, rejecting its original ...

In Elijah Muhammad’s own mind, he was the final prophet of Allah, who, in the words of the NOI creed delineated in a document titled “What the Muslims Believe” (see appendix E in Evanzz’s ...

In Detroit, the Christian references were to be replaced by quotations from the Quran, Islam’s holy book, after Elijah was first exposed to Fard Muhammad’s teaching in the fall of 1931.