"One day I noticed among her books one, I had never seen before. I looked inside and read the beginning--it was the Gospel in Turkish."

This would be Muhammed Shükri's first encounter with the truth of Jesus Christ as testified to in the writings of the Christians, the New Testament. It would not be his last.

This Muslim and mullah, this dervish and descendant of the prophet Muhammad, from the distant province of Erzerum in the Ottoman Empire, would continu