Qayyim Naoki Yamamoto: A Question About Happiness and an Honest Teacher
Qayyim Naoki Yamamoto began a search in the library of Doshisha University in Kyoto without knowing where it would lead. Raised in…
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Craig “Ismail” Fenter: From the Priesthood to a Path He Found Rooted in Islam
Craig Victor Fenter grew up in a Catholic family in the United States. He entered seminary and, by his own account, spent…
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Andriy “Anvar” Derkach: When Divine Oneness Reconciled Faith and Reason
Andriy Derkach, the Ukrainian journalist later known as Anvar, came close in his youth to pursuing the Orthodox priesthood. A priest offered…
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Oleg Kalenchuk: When the Question of Purpose Found an Answer in Divine Oneness
Oleg Petrovich Kalenchuk was not looking for a quick affiliation. An artist from Simferopol, he describes his life before Islam as a…
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Amanda Figueras: When a Journalist’s Investigation Turned the Question Back on Her
Amanda Figueras did not begin by looking for a new religion. She was a Spanish journalist, and her first sustained encounter with…
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Abd Al Malik: from the question of oneness to the responsibility of dialogue
Régis Fayette-Mikano, later known as Abd Al Malik, grew up in a devout Catholic home. He accompanied his mother to Mass, prepared…
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Robbie “Hamza” Maestracci: asking for a path to follow
Robbie Maestracci grew up with an intermittent experience of religion, then moved away from it. When he returned from the United States…
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Monica Rahima: from a distant image to a personal search
At a 2014 press conference in Chennai, the actress known as Monica opened with an Islamic greeting and said that she had…
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Antonija Petra: finding an answer, and someone to talk to
Antonija Petra Gagulić grew up in Osijek, Croatia, in a Catholic family whose faith was part of everyday life. She remembered a…
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Mélanie ‘Diam’s’: the question fame could not answer
The public knew Mélanie Georgiades as Diam’s: a successful French rapper with hit records and awards. She seemed to have the things…
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Susan Carland: Asking What She Truly Believed
Susan Carland remembered her church with affection. When she later told the story of her conversion, she made a point of describing…
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Dave Chappelle: A Question About Meaning, Asked in a Pizza Shop
A serious question can begin in a place we pass every day. Long before fame, Dave Chappelle used to visit a pizza…
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