My Name Used to Be Muhammad: A True Story of a Muslim Who Became a Christian by Tito Momen
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This was an incredible, true story of a man who was born in Nigeria and raised to be a Muslim cleric.
Tito Momen, formerly Muhammed Momen) began memorizing the Quran when he was six years old. He was eventually sent to Syria to study further and was disappointed to find that the college he was attending was strictly Muslim studies and no engineering or art which he would have loved to have included. He found the instructors to be bullies and was sent home where his father was completely disappointed.
He then went to Cairo where he would study for his PhD in Islamic studies. Through his own research, he began to doubt that Mohammed was truly a prophet.
He visited the LDS church with a friend and eventually converted to Christianity. Because the LDS church wasn’t recognized in Egypt and because his Nigerian college brothers felt he had committed a grave sin, Tito was jailed for his beliefs under the guise of drug trafficking which he had never participated in.
This is the story of a man’s growing faith and it was gripping and inspiring!