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Bowen infers that she was a white woman. Check out my essay on how Mufti Muhammad Sadiq and other Ahmadi editors lied about white converts to Ahmadiyya from Europe and America. Her full name was Nadirah Florence Ives Osman.
In the Lahori-Ahmadi newspaper “The Light” on 1943, the Lahori-Ahmadi mission in the USA is discussed. William Phillips, President Roosevelt’s personal representative, visited Lahori representatives in Lahore in February 1943, he was informed that the group currently had no mission in the us nor planned for one in the immediate future. (See “Mr. Phillips Sees Anjuman’s Representatives,” Light, March 1, 1943, 8., “Islamic Mission for America,” Light, April 16, 1943, 3., “Islam Mission for America,” Light, May 16, 1943, 3., (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). Almost immediately after the Light’s editorial came out, an American, whose identity is unknown, wrote a letter—which was published in the Light—to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of Pakistan’s independence movement, asking that he send a mission to the United States.
Florence Ives was born in Union County, New Jersey in 1895, Nadirah embraced Islam in 1926, apparently through the influence of her one-time husband, an Egyptian of a mixed Arab and Turkish background. Nadirah—who saw her choosing Islam as “a continuation and logical development” of the beliefs of her English, French, German, and Dutch ancestors—was proud to affiliate with different races through a shared belief. She must have been elated, then, to discover the emphasis on unity and equality prevalent in Ahmadi literature, which she had acquired by 1931 while living in Turkey. Nadirah had first learned about Webb in 1931 while reading the preface to MGA’s “The Teachings of Islam” (1910 edition), which Webb had helped edit, and in the early 1940s, after meeting Tunison, a chiropractor and homeopathic doctor who had recently converted to Islam, the two began researching Webb’s life, even going as far as contacting his daughter. (See The Light (16 April 1944) — www.alahmadiyya.org).
Armed with a strong faith in the truth of Islam, even after divorcing her husband, Nadirah was committed to promoting her religion, and in 1939 and 1940 had several essays published in Woking’s Lahori-influenced Islamic Review magazine. (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975).
Nadira also seems to have written letters to Wali Akram in 1943. She is mentioned 39 times in Bowen. Nadira is mentioned extensively in The Light of April, 8, 1944, in fact, a text of her address, at a meeting of Muslims at Steinway Hall, New York in Nov of 1943, and under the auspices of the Webb memorial committee. Interestingly, Nadirah’s November 1943 meeting was not the first time a ‘Webb Memorial’ project was being discussed in the network of white Muslims in wartime America.
In April of 1947, Via the Lahori-Ahmadi newspaper, “The Light” (See page 2), (Mrs.) Nadira Usman, “The ‘Light’ in New York,”, Bowen infers that she is a white woman, (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). Bowen calls her Lahori Nadira, in the Light, she seems to indicate that her child is half Egyptian.
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In April of 1947, Via the Lahori-Ahmadi newspaper, “The Light” (See page 2), (Mrs.) Nadira Usman, “The ‘Light’ in New York,”, Bowen infers that she is a white woman, (See Bowen, A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975). Bowen calls her Lahori Nadira, in the Light, she seems to indicate that her child is half Egyptian. Nadira also seems to have written letters to Wali Akram in 1943. She is mentioned 39 times in Bowen.
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