Abstract
The United States of America has been one of the external factors in the emergence of
Armenian uprisings in Anatolia. Since the beginning of the nineteen century, the US had tried to
utilize two instruments for constituting its interest in the Ottoman territories: trade and missionary
activities. Missionaries used the Armenian uprisings of the late 19th century as a propaganda
machine to gather funding in the US and created an anti-Ottoman public opinion. All kinds of the
chaos actions that were made by Armenian Committees were supported by all of the missionaries
in Ottoman Empire.
Mohammed A. R. Webb (1846-1916) who was born in Hudson, New York, a white Muslim
convert who is the first known white American convert to Islam was Webb, a middle-class
Protestant who as inspired to turn to Islam through his reading and studying of the religion. Webb
was endlessly committed to Islam and to preaching the message of Islam in America, but he always
considered himself a ‘plain American citizen’. He did not see his religion or his acceptance of
Islam as extraordinary; he believed that he was able to accept Is- lam earlier than his fellow
countrymen simply because he had the benefit of under- standing it sooner. He never saw himself
at odds with the American people or cul- ture, and his contemporaries took a keen and kindly
interest in Webb and his work. This article argues that Mohammed A. R. Webb have challenged
the prevailing anti-Islamic sentiments of his time and wrote two booklets about the Armenian and
Turkish conflicts from a Muslim point of view in 1895. Therefore, he appointed the Honorary
Turkish Consul in New York by Sultan Abdul Hamid II. The pro-Turkish booklets A Few Facts
about Turkey under the Reign of Abdul Hamid II and The Armenian Troubles and Where the
Responsibility Lies were published anonymously.
Key Words: The Armenian Troubles, Armenian Revolutionaries, the Sassoun Rebellion,
American Missionaries, Mavroyeni Bey, Mohammed Webb