Journey to Islam

This is a good book to read, he is definitely someone to aspire to. He has written some other books as well, particularly Islam: The Alternative, which became controversial for some time before its publication.

He looks up to many people, intellectuals of this era as he calls it, among them Muhammad Asad (whom he had the opportunity to meet), Syaikh Sabri Kotchi from Albania, Mufti Yakub Efendi Slumic from Bosna, Professor Jeffrey Lang the American mathematician, and Anwar Ibrahim.