Abstract
This paper is about Czech women converting to Islam, about those, who were born and raised here. It is focusing on the motives of their conversion and on the subsequent changes of their lives.
It is also about how their families, friends and entourage have coped with their conversion and how these women have felt about the change of their personal lives. Furthermore this paper is focusing on building of their new identities.
The whole paper is built on qualitative research and is backed up with personal testimonies and life stories of nine informants. Their testimonies are compared to theories concerning conversion and compared with researches about Islam converts in different European countries or United States of America.