Mohammad Alexander R. Webb was born in 1846 at Hudson, Columbia County, New York. Educated at Hudson and New York he became an essayist and a short-story writer. He took to journalism and became the editor of St. Joseph Gazette and of Missouri Republican. In 1887, he was appointed United States Consul at Manila, Philippines. It was during this assignment that he studied Islam and joined its fold. After becoming Muslim he extensively toured the world of Islam and devoted the rest of his life to Missionary work. He also became the head of the Islamic Propaganda Mission in the USA. Mr. Webb died on 1st October 1916.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I might reply promptly and truthfully that I adopted this religion because I found, after protracted study, that it was the best and only system adapted to the spiritual needs of the humanity. And here let me say that I was not born as some boys seem to be, with a fervently religious strain in my character. When I reached the age of 20, and became practically my own master, I was so tired of the restraint and dullness of the Church that I wandered away from it and never returned to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[19942,1387,19943,497,7,341,445,8573,2126,1087],"class_list":["post-31879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-truth-seeker","tag-alexander-webb","tag-conversion-story","tag-conversion-story-of-alexander-r-webb-usa","tag-faith","tag-featured","tag-islam","tag-muslim","tag-reversion","tag-revert","tag-usa"],"yoast_head":"\n