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Selma A. Cook became a Muslim in 1988 in her native country of Australia. [2] She migrated to Egypt in 1993. [3]She has written a book about her journey to Islam called The Miracles of My Life, an Islamic poetry book called The Light of Submission, as well as the Miss Moppy [4] series (Islamic stories for children).
Murad Wilfried Hofmann (1931 – 13 January 2020) was a German diplomat and author. He wrote several books on Islam, including Journey to Makkah (ISBN 0-915957-85-X) and Islam: The Alternative (ISBN 0-915957-71-X).
The journey took him 18 months to complete and along the way he met with misfortune and adversity, including attack by bandits, rescue by Bedouins, [4] fierce sand storms [5] and dehydration. [4] Ibn Battuta spent a total of 29 years travelling and covered 75,000 miles [4] (117,000 kilometres) [5] before he finally returned home. [4]
The desert fascinated him, and Islam became his new spiritual home. He left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad. He became one of the most important Muslims of the 20th century, first as an adviser at the royal court of Saudi Arabia, and later translating the Quran into English.
The book is a description of the middle-East, written before his conversion to Islam, for a German-speaking readership – The Unromantic Orient (2004), English translation by Elma Ruth Harder; Islam at the Crossroads (1934), a call for Muslims to avoid imitating Western society and instead return to the original Islamic heritage, written in ...
Mark A. Gabriel (born December 30, 1957) is an Egyptian-American lecturer and writer on Islam who lives in the United States.He is the author of five books critical of Salafi Islam, including Islam and Terrorism, Islam and the Jews, and Journey into the Mind of an Islamic Terrorist.
Yarros, on the other hand, isn’t ready to mark the calendar with a release date for Book 4 just yet. In a largely spoiler-free conversation with Olympic gymnast ...
Riḥla (Arabic: رحلة) refers to both a journey and the written account of that journey, or travelogue.It constitutes a genre of Arabic literature.Associated with the medieval Islamic notion of "travel in search of knowledge" (الرحلة في طلب العلم), the riḥla as a genre of medieval and early-modern Arabic literature usually describes a journey taken with the intent of ...