Coming to Islam: Nissa

Habeeba Husain Growing up with a Jewish background, Nissa knew that a person who wanted to accept Judaism would be ritually turned away three times before a rabbi accepted the potential convert’s request on a fourth attempt. But she never imagined she herself would run into three different [...]

2025-03-12T03:46:30+00:00March 12th, 2025|Converts|

I’ve lived half my life as a Muslim. Here are five things I’ve learned.

Laura El Alam This March, God willing, I will celebrate my twenty-fifth shahadaversary, a term coined by some of us converts to mark the day we made the testimony of faith (shahada) and officially embraced Islam. I will also, God willing, turn 50  this year, which will mean [...]

2025-02-15T21:45:14+00:00February 15th, 2025|Converts|

Reflections of a Convert on Black America, Family, Community, and The Comforts of Islam

Interview By: Melissa Barreto Candice Elam's Journey to Islam Candice Elam, DNP, FNP-C, accepted Islam 19 years ago. Like many converts, her choice meant practicing a new religion, navigating changing family dynamics, and learning how to maintain her own identity in the wider, and often ethnocentric, Muslim communities. This [...]

2025-02-06T09:27:03+00:00February 4th, 2025|African Americans, Converts|

Coming to Islam: Stephanie

Habeeba Husain Growing up in a nonreligious household, Stephanie never thought twice about Islam. She had no connection to it. If anything, she considered herself opposed to what she thought she knew of the religion. “If you grow up in an Agnostic, Atheist, or non-practicing background, sometimes the [...]

2025-01-23T13:10:18+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Converts|

My uncle, the Catholic priest, is one of my biggest supporters

Laura El Alam There are many sad, true stories of converts’ families rejecting or denouncing them because of their choice to follow Islam. Oftentimes, family members who are deeply religious are the ones who struggle most with accepting their loved one’s conversion. That is not always the case, [...]

2025-01-23T13:13:17+00:00January 23rd, 2025|Converts, Family|
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