Their journey to Islam

• Received serious Jewish scriptural education
• Learned Arabic through travel
• Saw worship and society joined
• Wrote The Message of the Qur’an

The full story

Leopold Weiss travelled as a European correspondent and found Muslim life less fragmented than the civilisation reporting on it. Worship, ethics and society belonged to one moral world. On a Berlin train, faces exhausted by accumulation recalled a Qur’anic warning. He accepted Islam and gave decades to translating the book that had named his age’s illness.