By Debra Dirks. An increasing number of American women are embracing Islam, already over one million converts. These are modern American women born and brought up in America to non-Muslim parents. They have journeyed down the path of Islam without giving up their American heritage and found liberation and self-actualization by becoming Muslim. "This book presents the personal accounts of six American Muslim women sharing their first-person narratives of the winding roads they traveled to embrace Islam.