“…Islam come from the nominally religious section of the society, or had tried another religion before conversion A review of the relevant literature (e g Heirich, 1977, Harrison, 1974, Greil 1977, Ebaugh and Vaughn, 1984, Salzman, 1953, Christensen, 1963, Allison, 1969, Richardson, 1985 on conversion and new religious movements revealed a growing division between psychodynamic and cognitive approaches to the emotional and cognitive antecedents of conversion To find out some of the emotional antecedents of conversion, questions like "Did anything unusual like a broken marriage occur' ? " were included The elements (e g seekership) of Lofland and Stark's (1965) conversion process model were examined by questions like "Were you looking for something"" The last section included questions designed to look for conversion patterns based on Lofland and Skonovd's (1981) conversion motifs (intellectual, affectional, mystical, etc) The interviewees were also asked to identify the most motivating factor in their conversion to see if this differed from subjects in a previous study of American and European converts to Islam by Poston (1988) Questions like "How were you introduced to Islam ?"…”