Wallace D. Fard, also known as Wallace Fard Muhammad (Arabic: ولي فرض محمد) (/fəˈrɑːd/; born February 26, 1877[2] – circa 1934), was a co-founder of the Nation of Islam. He arrived in Detroit in 1930 with an obscure background and several aliases, and taught an idiosyncratic form of Islam to members of the city’s black population. He was also known as being a seller of silk, incense, and perfume and was described as an Arab or Middle Eastern man, but remembered as being a “light-skinned” black man by leaders of the Nation of Islam. Fard was last seen in 1933 by Elijah Muhammad, when Fard took off in an airplane from the Detroit airport.