Sister Noor has her Masters Degree from Georgetown University in Contemporary Arab Studies. She notes that she accepted or "reverted" to Islam 28 years ago upon reading the Holy Qur'an.

"Najla" T. Ilhan has a bachelor's in business administration, is a wife, mother of two, and enjoys sports and doing volunteer work at her children's school in her free time.

We interviewed Gonca Şenler, an active member of the Islamic community in Denmark, about the repercussions of the cartoon crisis, as well as what the rates of conversion to Islam in Denmark were and the reasons for such conversions.

Reyyan Kılıç is a former pharmacist the Philippines. She is married and has young sons. In her free times, she enjoys reading books, magazines and emails friends and spending time with her family.

Kathleen St.Onge is a public school teacher and a convert to Islam. She speaks regularly on Islam and develops internet projects to promote faith-based living and religious tolerance. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

What am I doing down here? I wonder, my nose and forehead pressed to the floor as I kneel in prayer. My kneecaps ache, my arm muscles strain as I try to keep the pressure off my forehead. I listen to strange utterings of the person praying next to me.

In the years between these two Prophets, I read over 1,000 books in search of the truth including psychology, sociology, anthropology, religion, history and philosophy. I was especially interested in feminism, Carl Jung's psychology..

Today, the fact that Islam is the most rapidly growing religion in the United States, as well as in the rest of the world, has attracted the attention of Muslim and non-Muslim observers.

There are great people whose lives are divided into periods, and we find that these people have different characteristics in each period. Their lives are stormy, but in the end, they drop anchor in a safe harbor.

The word ihtida means the embracing of Islam by people who belong to other religions. Literally, conversion is derived the word huda (the right way), which means "finding the right way; guiding", and it is a term that encapsulates..