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I am an American journalist and author.  In 1997, aged 49, after more than 30 years of research study, and life experience, I came into Islam.  This decision reflected many issues in my life. I grew up in an environment that would be extremely strange for most Americans.  My father was Jewish; my mother was […]

I am an American woman who was born in the midst of America’s “Heartland”.  I grew up, just like any other girl, being fixated with the glamour of life in “the big city”.  Eventually, I moved to Florida and on to South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking the “glamorous life”.  Naturally, I

Peter Sanders was born in London in 1946.  His professional career in photography began during the mid-sixties where he photographed most of the major stars in the music business including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Who, the Rolling Stones etc.  Towards the end of the 1970’s, Sanders’ attention turned inward which set him

The man died, and Salman stayed in Amuria.  One day, “Some merchants from the tribe of Kalb[1]  passed by me,” Salman said, “I told them, ‘Take me to Arabia and I will give you my cows and the only sheep I have.’”  They said, “Yes.”  Salman gave them what he offered, and they took him with

The blessed Companion of the Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, Salman al-Farisi narrates[1]  his journey to Islam as follows: “I was a Persian man from the people of Isfahaan[2]  from a town known as Jayi.  My father was the town chief.  To him, I was the most beloved creature of

In the winter of 1990, when my second daughter was born, she was whisked from the birthing room to the neonatal intensive care unit, where she was diagnosed with a coarctation of the aorta.  This meaning a critical narrowing in the major vessel from the heart, she was a dusky gunmetal blue from the chest

Having repeated been asked about how I became Muslim, and why, I have decided to tell the story one last time, but this time on paper.  However, I feel conversion stories are worthless unless related with the lessons learned, and it is with those lessons that I intend to begin. No doubt, there is a

Acknowledged by many players as the greatest basketball player of all time, voted six times the National Basketball Association’s most valuable player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is also one of the most visible Muslims in the American public arena.  The 7’ 2”native upper Harlem, born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, starred for UCLA before entering the National Basketball Association

If you were being interrogated by the Taleban as a suspected US spy, it might be hard to imagine a happy ending. But for journalist Yvonne Ridley, the ordeal in Afghanistan led her to convert to a religion she says is “the biggest and best family in the world”. The formerly hard-drinking Sunday school teacher

I needed a refuge.  I had fallen in love with Jamaica, if it is possible to fall in love with a place, and I hated Egypt simply because it was not Jamaica.  Where were my Blue Mountains, my tropical sea, my beautiful West Indian girls? How could I ever have left the only place that