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  Alexander Russell Webb was a journalist and writer before becoming one of the most prominent American Muslims of the late nineteenth century. Webb was born in 1846 in Hudson, New York, and grew up in a Presbyterian family. His father was a journalist, which had a clear influence on his career, as he also turned to journalism and writing and worked as an editor for several American newspapers. But Webb’s intellectual life was not anchored to a single belief. He went through a long journey in search of truth, beginning with an interest in materialism, then becoming attracted to Buddhism, and later to the Theosophical movement, before his search eventually led him to Islam. In 1887, Webb was appointed U.S. Consul in Manila, Philippines, during the administration of President Grover Cleveland. His stay in the Philippines became the major turning point in his life. There, he became more closely acquainted with the Muslim world, met a number of Indian Muslim merchants, ...