Their journey to Islam

• Raised Catholic in Canada
• Encountered Islam during study and travel
• Became a leading scholar and educator

The full story

Mattson’s conversion began when categories met people. Muslim women she encountered in West Africa possessed moral confidence, hospitality and spiritual seriousness that Western stereotypes had made invisible. She read the Qur’an and found a revelation joining social justice to worship. The student’s questions became decades of scholarship, chaplaincy and institution-building.