Home›Open Questions›Where Was Wallace Fard Muhammad Born, and Who Was He Before 1930?Open QuestionsWhere Was Wallace Fard Muhammad Born, and Who Was He Before 1930?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Where Was Wallace Fard Muhammad Born, and Who Was He Before 1930?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/where-was-wallace-fard-muhammad-born-and-who-was-he-before-1930.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Where Was Wallace Fard Muhammad Born, and Who Was He Before 1930?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/where-was-wallace-fard-muhammad-born-and-who-was-he-before-1930Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-where-was-wallace-fard-muhammad-born-and, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Where Was Wallace Fard Muhammad Born, and Who Was He Before 1930?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/open-questions-index/where-was-wallace-fard-muhammad-born-and-who-was-he-before-1930}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionHe is the founding figure of the Nation of Islam, a movement with millions of adherents across its history, and no document has been produced that establishes who he was before he appeared in Detroit around 1930. Historians, journalists and the FBI have each proposed different identities and origins for him, and none commands consensus.What would resolve this A birth, immigration, employment or court record naming him under a documented pre-1930 identity, corroborated independently of the competing candidate identities already proposed by investigators and journalists.OpenAmerican religious history; archival and genealogical research; journalism and investigative historyMartha F. Lee, The Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian MovementCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnWallace Fard Muhammad, Historical Figures Well-attested Source The Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian MovementMartha F. Leetier 1SourcesThe Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian Movementtier 1Martha F. Lee, Syracuse University Press, 1996Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year