Alexey, Saratov “I testify that there is no God except Allah, and I testify that Muhammad is his slave and the messenger.” This prayer formula is called “Shahad”, its pronunciation is the main condition for the adoption of Islam. Three years ago, in a small Saratov mosque on the edge of the city, a 27-year-old psychiatrist, Aleksey K. Mullah, introduced his new to the few local parishioners of their new brother, has gone from a Russian nationalist to a Russian Muslim.