![](images/groups_photos/WallaceFard.jpg) Wallace Fard Muhammad
Nation of Islam
![](images/g_officialname.gif) Nation of Islam
![](images/g_altname.gif) NOI
![](images/g_foundersname.gif) Wallace Fard Muhammad (b. Wallace D. Fard; Wallace Dodd Ford?) (1891-?), "Most Honorable" Elijah Muhammad (b. Robert Poole) (1897-1975)
![](images/g_currentleaders.gif) "Honorable Minister" Louis Farrakhan (b. Louis Eugene Walcott) (1933-)
![](images/g_foundingplace.gif) Detroit, Michigan USA
![](images/g_headquarters.gif) Chicago, Illinois USA
![](images/g_organization.gif) include Fruit of Islam, Muhammad Farms
![](images/g_books.gif) include Holy Qu’ran, Message to the Blackman in America, A Torchlight for America
![](images/g_periodicals.gif) The Final Call
![](images/g_broadcasts.gif) Farrakhan Speaks
![](images/g_beliefs.gif) The NOI affirms that "Allah (God) appeared in the Person of Master W. Fard Muhammad, July, 1930; the long-awaited ’Messiah’ of the Christians and the ’Mahdi’ of the Muslims." While claiming the Qur’an as scripture and acknowledging that the Bible has limited value, the movement maintains a host of strange views (including UFO theories, a form of polytheism, and Elijah Muhammad’s claim that "The Blackman is the Original Man"—the "white race" having been created by an evil scientist named Yakub.)
![](images/g_controversies.gif) Sources of conflict have included internal power struggles, incendiary racial views, a perceived hostility toward Jews, and the movement’s problematic relationship to orthodox/mainstream Islam. Many see Minister Farrakhan as a cunning demagogue.
![](images/g_adherents.gif) one million
![](images/g_countries.gif) Belize, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
![](images/g_languages.gif) include English, French, Spanish
![](images/g_resources.gif) www.answering-islam.org/NoI/noi1.html
www.answering-islam.org/NoI/noi2.html
www.watchman.org/profile/nationofislampro.htm
answering-islam.org.uk/NoI/
www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss111/islam1.htm
www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss112/islam2.htm
www.sdmin.org/soundingboard/199609.htm
![](images/g_news.gif) www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Farrakhan-Mosque.html
![](images/g_sites.gif) www.noi.org
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