Author name: sofian

In 1922 I left my native country, Austria, to travel through Africa and Asia as a Special Correspondent to some of the leading Continental newspapers, and spent from that year onward nearly the whole of my time in the Islamic East. My interest in the nations with which I came into contact was in the […]

Muhammad Asad was born Leopold Weiss in July 1900 in the city of Lvov (German Lemberg), now in Poland, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was the descendant of a long line of rabbis, a line broken by his father, who became a barrister. Asad himself received a thorough education that would qualify him

 “I began to see Islam with its own eyes, as the unadulterated, pristine belief in the one and only, the true God, Who does not beget, and was not begotten, Whom nothing and nobody resembles … In place of the qualified deism of a tribal God and the constructions of a divine Trinity, the Quran

Ph.D (Law) Harvard. German Social Scientist and Diplomat.  Embraced Islam in 1980. Dr. Hofmann, who accepted Islam in 1980, was born as a Catholic in Germany in 1931.  He graduated from Union College in New York and completed his legal studies at Munich University where he received a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1957. He became

The simplicity of Islam, the powerful appeal and the compelling atmosphere of its mosques, the earnestness of its faithful adherents, the confidence inspiring realization of the millions throughout the world who answer the five daily calls to prayer – these factors attracted me from the first.  But after I had determined to become a follower

After twenty-five years as a writer in America, I wanted something to soften my cynicism.  I was searching for new terms by which to see.  The way one is raised establishes certain needs in this department.  From a pluralist background, I naturally placed great stress on the matters of racism and freedom.  Then, in my

Dr. Jeffrey Lang is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas, one of the biggest universities in the United States.  He started his religious journey on Jan 30, 1954, when he was born in a Roman Catholic family in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  The first 18 years of his life were spent in Catholic

“Every child is born with a disposition towards the natural religion of obedience (i.e. Islam); it is the parents who make him a Jew, A Christian or a Magian.“(Saheeh Al-Bukhari). Having been born in Islam, it was a good many years before I realized this fact. At school and college I was occupied, perhaps too

The Oneness of Man under One God It was during his pilgrimage that he began to write some letters to his loyal assistants at the newly formed Muslim Mosque in Harlem.  He asked that his letter be duplicated and distributed to the press: “Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of

“I am and always will be a Muslim.  My religion is Islam.” -Malcolm X Early Life Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska.  His mother, Louis Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family’s eight children.  His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter