Encyclopedia of Islam

Webb, Alexander Russell

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Yankee Mohammedan,” Webb also spoke about 

Islam in private homes and at public speaking 

engagements around the country. Webb’s mission 

and publishing center lacked sufficient funding, 

and, by 1896, he ended the mission and moved to 

Rutherford, New Jersey, where he again worked as 

a journalist. In 1901, in recognition of his advo-

cacy of Islam in general and his defense of Turkey 

in particular, Webb was named honorary Turk-

ish consul to New York. He traveled to Istanbul 

where Sultan Abdulhamid II (r. 1876–1909) gave 

him the third Order of Medjidie and the Medal of 

Merit, as well as the honorific title of Bey. Webb 

died on October 1, 1916.

See also 

conversion

; 

daawa

; m

ohammedanism

; 

U

nited

 s

tates

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Kate O’Halloran