Read about some professors and thinkers who converted to Islam from different religions.

Mellema embraced Islam

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 16 November 2011
I began with my study of eastern languages at the University of Leiden in 1919 and attended the lectures of Prof. C. Snouck Hurgronje, the well-known Arabist,
 

Haroon Mustapha Leon in Islam

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 16 November 2011
He was a Fellow and Honorary Member of many learned societies in Europe and America. He was an able Philologist, and was at that time contributing a series of articles on the “Etymology of the Man’s Language” to the ‘Isle of Man Examiner’. His services to this important branch of science had frequently been recognized by learned bodies,
   

HamidMarcus guided

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 16 November 2011
"As a child I had felt an inner urge to learn all I could about Islam",
 

Thomas Irving and Islam

Written by Islamstory Tuesday, 15 November 2011
In approaching an account of my conversion to Islam, it would be as well to relate my personal experience, both before and after coming into contact with its ideals,
   

David Bengamni accepts Islam

Written by Islamstory Tuesday, 15 November 2011
My conversion to Islam cannot be attributed to any cause other than the gracious direction of Almighty God,
 

Christian Anthropologist turns to Islam

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Dr. Umar Rolf Baron Ehrenfels, professor of Anthropology stated: The essential features of Islam which impressed me most and attracted me to this great religion are the follows. Let's follows it up.
   

Abdul Karim Germanus became a Muslim

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Dr. Abdul Karim Germanus is working as Professor and Head of the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies at the Budapest University, Hungary. He tells thestory of convrting to Islam.
 

How Captain Jacques accepted Islam

Written by Islamstory Sunday, 18 September 2011
«I Swear that this Koran from which the modern science lags behind on 1400 years, can not be speech of the person. It is true speech of Almighty.» Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau was quoted.
   

Jeffrey Lang, Professor of Mathematics and Writer

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 06 April 2011
Dr. Jeffrey Lang is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kansas, one of the biggest universities in the United States.  He started his religious journey on Jan 30, 1954, when he was born in a Roman Catholic family in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  The first 18 years of his life were spent in Catholic schools, which left him with many unanswered questions about God and the Christian religion, Lang said, as he narrated his story of Islam.
 

Raphael, comic and lecturer, converted to Islam

Written by Islamstory Wednesday, 06 April 2011
A forty-two-year-old Latino, Raphael, is a Los Angeles-based comic and lecturer. He was born in Texas where he attended his first Jehovah's Witness meeting at age six. He gave his first Bible sermon at eight, tended his own congregation at twenty, and was headed for a position of leadership among the 904,000 Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States. But he traded his Bible for a Qur'an after having braved a visit to a local mosque.
   

Ali Selman Benoist, physician

Written by Abdul-Rahim Ammar Thursday, 03 March 2011
As a doctor of Medicine, and a descendant of a French Catholic family, the very choice of my profession has given me a solid scientific culture which had prepared me very little for a mystic life. Not that I did not believe in God, but that the dogmas and rites of Christianity in general and of Catholicism in particular never permitted me to feel His presence. Thus unitary sentiment for God forbade my accepting the dogma of the Trinity, and consequently of the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
 

Maurice Bucaille

Written by Islamstory Sunday, 13 April 2008
Maurice Bucaille was born to a French parent and, like his family, he grew up a Christian. When he ended his secondary education, he joined Faculty of Medicine, France University
   

Dr. Yahya A.R. Lehmann, Doctor of Theology

Thursday, 03 March 2011
I hear this call to worship the one God alone for the first time in my life from the minaret of the Al-Aqsa Mosque standing in the ancient temple square of Jerusalem. I had arrived in this city, sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, for the Easter pilgrimage, as a research fellow for special studies in the then recently discovered and deciphered Dead Sea Scrolls.
 

Prof. Umar Mita. Economist, Social Worker and Preacher

Written by Abdul-Rahim Ammar Thursday, 03 March 2011
By the Grace of Allah I am leading a happy Muslim life for the last 3 years. The righteous way of life as taught by Islam, was shown to me by our Pakistan Tablighi brethren (Missionaries), who visited my country and to whom I am deeply grateful. The majority of our people are Buddhists, but they are Buddhists in name only.
   

Jeffrey Lang

Written by Islamstory Sunday, 27 June 2010
Lang was born in a Roman Catholic family. Although he went to a Roman Catholic school, by the time Jeffrey was 16, he was an atheist. He converted to Islam in the early 1980s, and admits that he finds much spiritual satisfaction being a Muslim.