Bridge between Islam and the gospel
Qureshi was raised a devout Ahmadi Muslim in a loving American family and trained from childhood in Islamic apologetics — he was winning arguments against Christians as a teenager. At university he met David Wood, a Christian who would not simply concede, and the two spent years in sustained, rigorous, mutually respectful argument.
Two things broke through, and Qureshi always insisted on both. First, the historical evidence: he could not make the Islamic denial of the crucifixion survive contact with the sources. Second, friendship — years of it, without conditions.
His conversion cost him his family's peace, and he never wrote about it lightly; Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus is as much about that grief as about the arguments. He died of stomach cancer at thirty-four.
For anyone with Muslim friends, he is the most valuable single guide available, because he has genuinely stood on both sides.
What Muslims actually believe, where the common ground and the real divergence lie, the objections you will meet, and how to engage a Muslim friend with truth and genuine love.
What Muslims actually believe and practise, the different shapes Islam takes — including the folk Islam of much of Africa — and where the gospel speaks into a Muslim's deepest longings.