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The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,_ he told us. He embraced Islam in 1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. __ identified with the story of Joseph in the Quran,_ he said. __is brothers sold him like goods in the market place._ Yusuf felt the music business had treated him not like an artist but as a commodity.
Kristiane Backer From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
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The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before,_ he told us. He embraced Islam in 1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. __ identified with the story of Joseph in the Quran,_ he said. __is brothers sold him like goods in the market place._ Yusuf felt the music business had treated him not like an artist but as a commodity.
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From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life

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