| Revision as of 03:41, 27 August 2007 edit122.162.98.107 (talk) →From []← Previous edit | Revision as of 15:45, 27 August 2007 edit undoBless sins (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers16,862 editsNo edit summaryNext edit → | ||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
| * ] (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player<ref></ref> | * ] (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player<ref></ref> | ||
| * ] - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings<ref></ref> | * ] - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings<ref></ref> | ||
| * ] (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player<ref></ref> | * ] (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player<ref></ref> | ||
| * ] - famous Swedish painter.<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. ] Academic Publishers. pg.28</ref><ref> states "He changed his name to Ivan Aguéli. Later he converted to Islam."</ref> | * ] - famous Swedish painter.<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. ] Academic Publishers. pg.28</ref><ref> states "He changed his name to Ivan Aguéli. Later he converted to Islam."</ref> | ||
| * ] - Canadian singer/poet.<ref></ref><ref></ref> | * ] - Canadian singer/poet.<ref></ref><ref></ref> | ||
| Line 153: | Line 153: | ||
| * ] ''(formerly Kamala Das)'' - Anglo-Malayalam writer<ref>http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/16varsha.htm</ref> | * ] ''(formerly Kamala Das)'' - Anglo-Malayalam writer<ref>http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/16varsha.htm</ref> | ||
| *] - renowned ]n ] actress from ].<ref>http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=3236</ref> | *] - renowned ]n ] actress from ].<ref>http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=3236</ref> | ||
| *] - Noted Indian Film Director | |||
| ===From ]=== | ===From ]=== | ||
| *] - religious leader and political activist.<ref>Mawlānā ʻUbayd Allāh Sindhī : ʻālāt-i zandagī, taʻlīmāt awr siyāsī afkār by Muḥammad Sarwar. Publisher: Lahore, 1976</ref> | *] - religious leader and political activist.<ref>Mawlānā ʻUbayd Allāh Sindhī : ʻālāt-i zandagī, taʻlīmāt awr siyāsī afkār by Muḥammad Sarwar. Publisher: Lahore, 1976</ref> | ||
| Line 259: | Line 257: | ||
| * ], Jewish community forced on pain of death to convert in 1839. Most continued Jewish practices in secret and many of their descendents returned to Judaism in the early 20th century.<ref name="Patai">{{cite book | last = Patai | first = Raphael | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Jadid al-Islam: The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed | publisher = Wayne State University Press | date = 1997 | location = Detroit | url = | doi = | id = ISBN 0-8143-2652-8 }}</ref> | * ], Jewish community forced on pain of death to convert in 1839. Most continued Jewish practices in secret and many of their descendents returned to Judaism in the early 20th century.<ref name="Patai">{{cite book | last = Patai | first = Raphael | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Jadid al-Islam: The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed | publisher = Wayne State University Press | date = 1997 | location = Detroit | url = | doi = | id = ISBN 0-8143-2652-8 }}</ref> | ||
| * ] - ]ese-] activist, from Christianity; later returned to his former faith.<ref></ref> | * ] - ]ese-] activist, from Christianity; later returned to his former faith.<ref></ref> | ||
| * ] and ] - forced to convert at gunpoint by terrorists of the ].<ref name="release">{{cite web|title=Kidnapped Fox journalists released|publisher=]|accessmonthday=August 27 |accessyear=2006|url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/08/27/fox.journalists/index.html}}</ref> | |||
| * ] - convert from Judaism, 17th century mystic, pseudo-Messiah and the self-proclaimed "King of Jews". Converted ostensibly of his own free will, while in prison. Although, some speculate that he may have been executed for treason had he not converted,<ref></ref> Muslim authorities were opposed to his death.<ref>Geoffrey L Lewis; Cecil Roth. New Light on the Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi. The Jewish Quarterly Review</ref> | * ] - convert from Judaism, 17th century mystic, pseudo-Messiah and the self-proclaimed "King of Jews". Converted ostensibly of his own free will, while in prison. Although, some speculate that he may have been executed for treason had he not converted,<ref></ref> Muslim authorities were opposed to his death.<ref>Geoffrey L Lewis; Cecil Roth. New Light on the Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi. The Jewish Quarterly Review</ref> | ||
| * ], professor at ]'s ], forced by ] operatives to convert to Islam from Christianity in 2007.<ref> '']''. August 5, 2007.</ref> | * ], professor at ]'s ], forced by ] operatives to convert to Islam from Christianity in 2007.<ref> '']''. August 5, 2007.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 15:45, 27 August 2007
The following is a list of notable converts to Islam.
| Part of a series on |
| Islam |
|---|
 |
| Beliefs |
| Practices |
| History |
| Culture and society |
| Related topics |
From Abrahamic religions
From Christianity
- Thomas J. Abercrombie - photographer
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer
- Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player
- Tariq Abdul-Wahad - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings
- Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - former NFL football player
- Ivan Aguéli - famous Swedish painter.
- Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian singer/poet.
- Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam to Sufism, SI's Sportsman of the Century
- Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley - British soldier and peer.
- Ryan G. Anderson - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for Al Qaeda
- Nicolas Anelka - French football player
- Yasin Abu Bakr - of Trinidad and Tobago, under trial for an attempted coup as of March 9, 2006
- Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of the Tékumel fantasy world.
- David Belfield - American, fled to Iran after assassinating Ali Akbar Tabatabai, an Iranian dissident, is charged with murder
- Józef Bem - Polish-Hungarian general, considered a national hero of Poland.
- Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963-1969), Spain (1973-1976) and Morocco (1976-1983)
- Yahya Birt - journalist and son of former BBC Director General John Birt, also director of The City Circle.
- Art Blakey - American Jazz musician
- Tawana Brawley (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.
- Willie Brigitte - French convert to Islam who associated with al-Qaeda in Pakistan and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in Australia.
- Dolores "LaLa" Brooks - American musician.
- Torquato Cardilli - Italian ambassador; converted from Catholicism.
- David Chappelle - comedian and television star
- Benjamin Chavis - controversial former head of the NAACP; joined the Nation of Islam
- Jimmy Cliff - Jamaican reggae musician.
- Aukai Collins - Irish American, fought in Chechnya, paid FBI informant, author of an autobiographical book
- Jerôme Courtailler - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists
- Ian Dallas - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - sufi shaykh of scotish orgins.
- Muriel Degauque - Belgian suicide bomber
- Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer
- Yahiya Emerick - American Muslim scholar, president of the Islamic Foundation of North America, born into a Protestant family.
- C. Jack Ellis - Mayor of Macon, Georgia
- Keith Ellison - American, raised Catholic, Representative from Minnesota's 5th congressional district, first Muslim to be elected to the United States Congress
- Yusuf Estes - former preacher and federal prison chaplain.
- Chris Eubank - British boxer
- Sultaana Freeman - sued the state of Florida for niqab restrictions.
- Adam Yahiye Gadahn - spokesperson for Al-Qaeda; on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists list
- Roger Garaudy - French philosopher, befor converting to Islam Marxist and mamber of French Communist Party]], later found guilty of holocaust denial.
- George XI of Kartli - Saffavid commander.
- René Guénon - French Author in the field of metaphysics
- Ryan Harris- football player for the Denver Broncos
- Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholicism, NATO official
- Knud Holmboe - Danish journalist and explorer; converted from Catholicism.
- Bernard Hopkins - American boxer
- Ahmed Huber- Swiss Neo-nazi journalist, holocaust denier and terrorist supporter
- Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson.
- Sarah Joseph - commentator on women's issues and founder of emel magazine.
- Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar.
- Michael Muhammad Knight - American novelist, writer, and journalist.
- John Walker Lindh - the American Taliban (convicted terrorist)
- Germaine Lindsay - participated and died in the 7 July 2005 London bombings
- Alexander Litvinenko - former Russian spy converted to Islam on his deathbed.
- Vincenzo Luvineri - American rapper and the lyricist behind the Philadelphia underground hip-hop group Jedi Mind Tricks; converted from Roman Catholicism.
- Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar and current president of the Islamic Society of North America (2006)
- Lee Boyd Malvo - convicted of capital murder and arrested for the Beltway sniper attacks, for being involved in 16 murders and 7 additional attempted murders.
- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood - British author.
- Iyasu V - Ethiopian emperor.
- Jacques-Francois Menou - French general under Napoleon I of France.
- Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup
- Daniel Moore - poet
- Preacher Moss - American comedian and comedy writer.
- Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly Matthew Franklin) - from Catholicism, former boxer.
- Peter Murphy - vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus. Converted from Catholicism.
- Sheila Musaji - founder of The American Muslim magazine.
- Ibrahim Muteferrika (original name not known) - From Unitarian Christianity, an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.
- John Nelson - first recorded Englishman to become a Muslim.
- Queen Noor of Jordan (formerly Lisa Najeeb Halaby)
- Omar Pasha - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.
- Pernilla Ouis - Swedish human ecologist, lecturer at Lund University.
- Emin Pasha - physician, naturalist, and Egyptian governor.
- Judar Pasha - conqueror of the Songhai Empire.
- Bilal Philips - Islamic scholar and author
- Poncke Princen - Dutch soldier, later human rights activist.
- St. John Philby - Arabist, explorer, writer, and British colonial office intelligence operative; converted from Anglicanism.
- Marmaduke Pickthall - famous translator of the Quran.
- William Abdullah Quilliam - poet, ambassador & journalist.
- Radu cel Frumos - was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia. Converted from Catholicism.
- Ilie II Rareş - prince of Moldavia.
- Ahmad Rashād - Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly with NBC Sports) and former American football wide receiver.
- Richard Colvin Reid - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist)
- Franck Ribéry- a French soccer player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.
- Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.
- Ahmed Santos - Filipino, from Roman Catholicism, fugitive, founder of the Rajah Solaiman Movement & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an Al Qaeda operative
- Scarface - American rapper
- Mario Scialoja - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.
- Betty Shabazz - wife of Malcolm X; former Methodist.
- Zaid Shakir - African-American Muslim speaker and intellectual in the United States.
- Skanderbeg - one of the most prominent historical figures in the history of Albania and the Albanian people; converted from Roman Catholicism.
- Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.
- Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian commander.
- Idris Tawfiq - British writer, who lives and works in Egypt, was a former Catholic priest.
- Joe Tex - soul singer and recording artist.
- Joseph Thomas - Australian who was wrongly convicted of being an Al-Qaida operative.
- Danny Thompson - English double bass player; converted from Catholicism.
- Richard Thompson - British musician, best known for his guitar playing and songwriting.
- Ahmad Thomson - British barrister and writer and also a member of the Murabitun movement.
- Top Topham - rock guitarist from England.
- Gabriele Torsello - Italian freelance photojournalist based in London who was abducted in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
- Philippe Troussier - French, former football player & trainer of a Japanese football team
- Mihnea Turcitul - was a Prince (Voivode) of Walachia. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Chrisitianity.
- Abu Usamah - controversial American-born Imam of Green Lane Masjid in Birmingham, UK. Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims and has links to a suspected Al Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
- Siraj Wahaj - African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate Brooklyn's drug problems.
- Danny Williams - British boxer
- Malcolm X - American, from Christianity to Nation of Islam to mainstream Islam, African-American civil rights leader.
- Khalid Yasin - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a Shaykh currently residing in Australia.
- James Yee - former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.
- Mohammed Yousuf - from Catholicism, Pakistani cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year.
- Hamza Yusuf - American convert from Greek Orthodox; head of the Zaytuna Institute.
- Alexander Russell Webb - American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.
- Suhaib Webb - American Islamic activist and speaker.
- Abdulla Webster - former Sergeant First Class in the United States Army who refused to deploy to Iraq.
- John Whitehead - an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
- Timothy Winter - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a lecturer in Islamic studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
- Zağanos Pasha - one of the prominent military commanders of Mehmet II (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a lala, at once an advisor, mentor, tutor, councilors, protector, for the sultan.
- Mohammed Zakariya - an American master of Arabic calligraphy, best known for his work on the popular Eid U.S. postage stamp.
- Omar Sharif - Academy Award-nominated Egyptian actor who has starred in many Hollywood films; converted from Catholicism.
From Judaism
- Abdullah ibn Sailam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.
- Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.
- Rashid al-Din - 13th century Persian physician
- Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Lev Nussimbaum - prolific author on the topics of Middle East and Russian history; the Nazi propaganda ministry included his works on their list of "excellent books for German minds" before discovering he was an ethnic Jew.
- Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.
- Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by Aurungzebe.
- Leopold Weiss (Muhammad Asad) - Viennese journalist who became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations
- Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - 9th century Persian scholar physician (a hakim), who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine.
- Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.
From Dharmic religions
From Buddhism
- Mahmud Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.
- Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252-1260, March-September 1266).
- Tarmashirin - Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.
From Hinduism
- Salma Arastu - Indian artist living in North America.
- Dhiren Barot - convicted terrorist, who confessed to planning "to detonate a dirty bomb and launch an attack on London's Tube".
- Sumita Devi - Bengali actress and filmmaker.
- Pir Mangho - 14th century Sufi pir.
- A. R. Rahman (formerly A. S. Dileep Kumar) - famous Indian music composer
- Parameswara - Malay prince of Palembang Hindu descent from Srivijaya that founded the Sultanate of Malacca around 1402.
- Abdul Wahid Pedersen - Swedish cleric.
- Sahaj Ram Sapru - the grandfather of the British-Indian Muslim Philosopher, Sir Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, who was an official in Kashmir during the administration of the Afghan Governor Azim Khan.
- Kamala Suraiyya (formerly Kamala Das) - Anglo-Malayalam writer
- Sharmila Tagore - renowned Indian film actress from Bengal.
From Sikhism
- Ubaidullah Sindhi - religious leader and political activist.
Other
From Paganism
- David Myatt - from Paganism, Neo-Nazi-activist
- Atik Sinan - Ottoman architect
From the Rastafari Movement
- Jackiey Budden - mother of Jade Goody
From non-religious to Islam
- Zhang Chengzhi - contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.
- Charles le Gai Eaton - British diplomat and writer.
- Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)
- Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas. (Raised Catholic, but atheist from age 18 to conversion)
- Martin Lings - a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.
- Mos Def - American rapper and actor.
Undetermined former religion
- Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano - French rapper of congolesse orgins.
- Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, convicted murderer
- B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.
- Claude Alexandre de Bonneval - French noble
- Hasan Akbar- sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq
- Kevin Barrett - university lecturer and member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth.
- Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.
- Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.
- Ronald Bell - musician.
- Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.
- Khaled Edward Blair - British barristor, later married Princess Badiya bint El Hassan of Jordan.
- Bizzy Bone - American rapper.
- Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon
- Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States
- H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.
- Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.
- Amir Butler- Author, Engineer and Islamic activist
- Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who had been at one point indicted and later acquitted for a suspected hijacking.
- Common - American rapper.
- Jill Courtney - Australian, girlfriend of convicted killer and drug trafficker Hassan Kalache, arrested on March 26, 2006 for attempted murder of unnamed people
- Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.
- Ice Cube - Gangsta rapper and actor
- Bob Denard - French mercenary.
- Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.
- Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.
- Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.
- Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.
- Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.
- Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.
- Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".
- Philippe Grenier - (1865-1944) French doctor, first and only muslim MP in France..
- Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.
- Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.
- David Hicks- convicted Australian terrorist
- Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.
- Craig Hodges - former NBA player.
- Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
- Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.
- Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom
- Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysion actress.
- Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.
- Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.
- Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.
- Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.
- Jemima Khan - ex-wife of cricketer Imran Khan, British socialite, and a UK ambassador for UNICEF.
- Muhammad Khodabandeh - eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.
- Vladimir Khodov- leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison
- Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.
- Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
- Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.
- Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.
- Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics
- Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.
- Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
- MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.
- Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.
- Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.
- John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper
- Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer
- Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.
- Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.
- José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault
- Robin Padilla - Filipino actor.
- Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda
- Q-Tip - North American hip-hop emcee, actor, and hip hop producer who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest. .
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi - former boxing world heavyweight champion.
- Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
- Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France
- Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom
- Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.
- Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.
- Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.
- Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.
- Nahshid Sulaiman - alternative hip hop artist.
- Apisai Tora - Fijian politician
- Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.
- Abdul Waheed (Don Stewart-Whyte) - accused of participating in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
- Jason Walters - of the Netherlands, member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism
- John Ward- (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.
- Rakan Ben Williams - suspected member of Al-Qaeda terrorist
- Michael Wolfe - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.
- Michael X - civil rights activist in the United Kingdom and convicted murderer.
Forced conversions
- Anusim of Meshhad, Jewish community forced on pain of death to convert in 1839. Most continued Jewish practices in secret and many of their descendents returned to Judaism in the early 20th century.
- Francis Bok - Sudanese-American activist, from Christianity; later returned to his former faith.
- Sabbatai Zevi - convert from Judaism, 17th century mystic, pseudo-Messiah and the self-proclaimed "King of Jews". Converted ostensibly of his own free will, while in prison. Although, some speculate that he may have been executed for treason had he not converted, Muslim authorities were opposed to his death.
- Sana al-Sayegh, professor at Gaza City's Palestine International University, forced by Hamas operatives to convert to Islam from Christianity in 2007.
See also
- Constitution of Medina
- Lists of Muslims
- Forced conversion
- List of notable people who converted to Christianity
- List of notable converts to Hinduism
- List of notable converts to Judaism
- List of notable converts to Sikhism
- List of notable former Muslims
- List of people by belief
- Religious conversion
References
 | Template:Wikify is deprecated. Please use a more specific cleanup template as listed in the documentation. |
- Interview at Bayweekly "Q: Am I right that you became a Moslem in the mid-1960s? Answer: I think it was '65 or '66."
- NY Times Archived Short Book Review of Giant Steps by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler.
- Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts . Brill Academic Publishers. pg.28
- Aguéli Museum states "He changed his name to Ivan Aguéli. Later he converted to Islam."
- History of the London Central Mosque and the Islamic Cultural Centre 1910-1980, A. L. Tibawi, Die Welt des Islams, New Ser., Bd. 21, Nr. 1/4 (1981), pp. 193-208
- Gary Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1983. Reprinted in 2002.
- Józef Bem. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland.
- Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts . Brill Academic Publishers. pg.130
- Question time
- Art Blakey official site In 1948, Art told reporters he had visited Africa, where he learned polyrhythmic drumming and was introduced to Islam, taking the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.
- Brigitte terrorism trial nears ABC News
- http://www.jimmycliff.com/v-css/bio/?part=1
- [http://www.liberation.fr/page. php?Article=217105]
- The Collected Works by Ian Dallas, Budgate Press, 2005, ISBN 0-620-34379-6
- Raised as Catholic in Belgium, She Died as a Muslim Bomber" by Craig S. Smith, New York Times December 6, 2005
- ^ Elizabeth Omara-Otunnu (11-17-2003). "Ramadan Awareness Event Designed To Debunk Negative Images". Advance, University of Connecticut.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Isabelle Eberhardt: Explorer
- CNN: Macon, Georgia, mayor converts to Islam
- ^
- Telegraph.co.uk - Lengthy queue to join religion that offers 'sense of direction'
- ^ Cite error: The named reference "adam" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- "INSIGHT". CNN. March 5, 2002. Retrieved 2007-05-31.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Putting a good glossy on the Muslim lifestyle. Times
- Keller, Nu Ha Mim. Becoming Muslim.
- http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_whitaker/2007/03/sex_drugs_and_prayer.html
- <
- http://www.philaflava.com/vinnie_paz.htm
- MSBC Article's title says "Raised Catholic, this Muslim professor is bringing the moderate viewpoint to the world."]
- http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Lee_Boyd_Malvo.html
- http://www.ruqaiyyah.karoo.net/index.htm
- Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia (London: James Currey, 1991), p. 121.
- "The history of new Muslims". Media ISNET. Retrieved 2007-03-17.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|accessdaymonth=,|month=,|accessyear=,|accessmonthday=, and|coauthors=(help) - http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/07/31/soccer_ed3__8.php
- Moore, Abd al-Hayy. CHOOSING ISLAM: ONE MAN'S TALE. University of New Hampshire.
- “Allah Made Me Funny!” - A Popular Muslim-American Comedy. IslamOnline.net
- Matthew Saad Muhammad
- http://www.nndb.com/people/875/000109548/
- Three killed while performing ritual
- UU site
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/uk_1.shtml
- Queen Noor of Jordan, The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Ethnicity, Cultural Discontinuity and Power Brokers in Northern Iraq: The Case of the Shabak .Amal Vinogradov. American Ethnologist, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 207-218
- Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts . Brill Academic Publishers. pg.110
- Davidson, Basil. Africa in History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
- Ponke, a human rights hero, is dead
- "Philby, H. Saint John." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2 July 2007 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9059645>.
- Islamic Studies : A Research Guide
- William Henry ('Sheikh Abdullah') Quilliam, 1856-
- ’’A Cold’’ By Marin Sorescu, Published 1978, p.16
- The Historians' History of the World by Henry Smith Williams, p. 137, published 1907
- http://www.tv.com/ahmad-rashad/person/4497/biography.html
- http://www.vikingstickets.com/main/players/Ahmad+Rashad
- http://worldcup.sportinglife.com/football/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/07/04/WORLDCUP_France_Ribery.html
- "Yvonne Ridley: From captive to convert", By Hannah Bayman, BBC News (online), 21 September, 2004
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series4/yvonne_ridley_iraq.shtml
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4745863.stm
- http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/shabazz_b.htm
- Rendina, Claudio (2000). La grande enciclopedia di Roma. Rome: Newton Compton. p. 1136. ISBN 88-8289-316-2.
- "Slatin, Rudolf Karl, Baron von." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 3 July 2007 <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068158>.
- http://soliman-pacha.ifrance.com/biograph.htm
- Measuring Success. The Journal of Turkish Weekly. Retrieved June 9, 2007
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E7DB1E39F937A2575BC0A964948260
- The Convert, Four Corners, February 27, 2006
- From the ABC's Four Corners program (21 August 2006). "The Transcript: What Thomas told Four Corners". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow/stories/2007/1948816.htm
- Humphries, Patrick, Richard Thompson - The Biography, Schirmer, 1997. ISBN 0-02-864752-1
- Thomson, Ahmad – Author Information Ibooks
- ”Top Brother”, Emel: The Muslim Lifestyle Magazine, January/February 2005, Issue 9
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6061236.stm
- Ştefan Ştefănescu, Istoria medie a României, Bucharest, Vol. I, 1991, p.164
- American-Born Imam Spews Message of Hate in England Fox News- January 18,2007
- Kohn, Rachael. The Black imam of Brooklyn
- Official website of Malcom X: Biography
- http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s943004.htm
- Mohammed Yousuf
- http://www.sunnipath.com/about/shaykhsuhaib.aspx
- http://www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SS_060404_Army,00.html
- John Whitehead at the Notable Names Database
- http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s1237986.htm
- The Genoese in Galata: 1453-1682, Louis Mitler, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 10, No. (Feb., 1979), pp. 71-91.
- http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2004/s1051544.htm
- E12, I. 52 (Joseph Horovitz, Muhammeds Himmelfahrt, Der Islam 9 (1919); Ibn Hajar Asqalani, Isaba fi Tamyiizi al-Sahaba, II. 312-3
- "TAPS" (PDF). The Kablegram. Staunton Military Academy Foundation. 2006. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - Encyclopedia Britannica, "Rashid ad-Din", 2007
- http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE7D71339F930A15752C1A963958260
- Lazare 2005.
- http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=6&letter=Q
- Biography of Muhammad Asad
- Edward G. Browne, Islamic Medicine, 2002, p. 37-38, ISBN 81-87570-19-9
- In the Court of Ya'qub Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah , Mark R. Cohen, Sasson Somekh ‘’The Jewish Quarterly Review’’, New Ser., Vol. 80, No. 3/4 (Jan. - Apr., 1990), pp. 283-314
- "Mahmud Ghazan." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 2 July 2007 <http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9365540/Mahmud-Ghazan>.
- A Sketch of the History of Hindustan from the First Muslim Conquest to the Fall of the Mughol Empire by H. G. Keene
- http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-3174062_ITM
- "Bio: Salma Arastu". Retrieved 2007-04-23.
- Muslim convert who plotted terror, BBC News, November 7, 2006. Retrieved June 23, 2007.
- Isikoff, Michael and Mark Hosenball (August 20, 2004). "Bin Laden's Mystery Man". Newsweek.
- Air Malta confirms Al-Qaeda terrorist was a former employee. Retrieved November 20, 2006.
- http://www.thenews.com.pk/editorial_detail.asp?id=29788
- http://members.tripod.com/gopalhome/arrbio.html
- The Encyclopedia of Malaysia: Languages & Literature, edited by Prof. Dato' Dr Asmah Haji Omar (2004) ISBN 981-3018-52-6
- http://www.islamonline.net/english/journey/2006/03/jour04.shtml
- Template:Harvard reference
- http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/16varsha.htm
- http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=3236
- Mawlānā ʻUbayd Allāh Sindhī : ʻālāt-i zandagī, taʻlīmāt awr siyāsī afkār by Muḥammad Sarwar. Publisher: Lahore, 1976
- Muslim Architecture under Ottoman Patronage, p.3
- * Fisac, Taciana (2003). "Social anomie and political discourse in contemporary China". China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion, and Collective Identities. United Kingdom: Routledge. p. 164. ISBN 0415312671.
{{cite conference}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help); Unknown parameter|booktitle=ignored (|book-title=suggested) (help); Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - Daily Times article reposted at his site
- Profile at a page for converts
- Struggling to Surrender, Some Impressions of an American Convert to Islam by Dr. Jeffrey Lang,
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/obituaries/29Lings.html?ex=1183521600&en=60d8e19089ae58a7&ei=5070
- You're Gonna Serve Somebody
- The religion of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted murderer
- Mumia Abu-Jamal case in court today
- http://hiphop.discogs.com/artist/B.G.+Knocc+Out+&+Dresta
- The Associated Press. (2003). "Motive a mystery in grenade attack" CNN.com. Retrieved November 25, 2006.
- Barrett's personal website
- Chronicle, New York Times, April 3, 1990
- Mr. Khaled Edward Blair
- BBC Profile: Gabon's 'president for life
- Last Statement from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 22 August, 2005.
- FourCorners Opinion: Amir Butler
- "Bodybuilding stuntman who turned to Islam". BBC News. 2002-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
- http://www.thesundaymail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,18602182%255E903,00.html]
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_4_45/ai_91040708
- Dr S. M. Abdullah (Khulusi 1963, pp. 234–235).
- Alys Faiz passes away
- Faiz Ahmed Faiz
- French Allege Detained German Is Top Al Qaeda Leader
- Ian Munro and Penny Debelle,Bring Hicks home, The Age, Fairfax, December 2, 2006
- ’’The Man Who Thumped the Reds’’, The Straits Times on Dec 1, 1984.
- PBS.org - Perspecives: American Muslim Issues
- ^ Profiling the Suspects: Converts to Islam
- New Sunday Times, Malaysia. "Tiara's true to her roles" (September 18, 2005)
- Vrijman, L.C. Kaapvaart en zeeroverij / L.C. Vrijman. - Amsterdam,
- Ali, Sahar (June 20, 2002). ""The real Jemima Khan"". The Dawn.
- Limbert, J. W. (2004). Shiraz in the age of Hafez: the glory of a medieval Persian city. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p.87
- http://vypusk.kursk.ru/pic/Beslan.doc
- http://www.paraplyprojektet.se/news.php?id=656&categoryID=12
- http://www.yuseflateef.com/AboutYusef.html
- Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 edited by Philip Rees, (1991, ISBN 0-13-089301-3)
- The Beast Reawakens by Martin A. Lee (1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6)
- Behind the Egyptian Sphinx: Nasser's strange bedfellows; prelude to World War III? by Irving Sedar and Harold J. Greenberg (Philadelphia, Chilton Co., 1960)
- http://terrypatten.typepad.com/iran/2007/06/in_qom_meeting_.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/us/30settle.html?ex=1322542800&en=0450419c94570958&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
- http://www.nndb.com/people/962/000095677/
- http://www.giantstep.net/artists/553/bio/
- http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/biography/viewentry.php?id=3312
- http://www.eastsideboxing.com/ade2510.html
- http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060227/ai_n16192685
- http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=16808
- http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=69182
- Ohio man accused of joining al-Qaida, planning bomb plots in Europe
- U.S. Man Accused of Plot to Bomb Resorts
- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992761-2,00.html
- Jack Roche: The naive militant
- http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/june02_index.php?l=6
- http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/articles/conversion_schwartz.htm
- http://www.emusic.com/artist/Sahib-Shihab-MP3-Download/11736427.html
- http://www.mp3.com/artist/one-be-lo/summary/
- Tvnz.co.nz
- Pinverbod voor terrorist, the Dutch foreign minister bans convicted Hofstadgroep terrorists from any financial transactions, by Rien Meijer and Bart Mos, De Telegraaf, April 20, 2006 (Dutch)
- http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/tajir/pirateresources/documents/ward/wardintro.htm
- http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP111206
- http://www.islamonline.net/english/journey/2005/08/jour03.shtml
- UPS (May 17, 1975) "Militant is Hanged in Trinidad After Long Fight for Clemency." New York Times.
- Patai, Raphael (1997). Jadid al-Islam: The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-2652-8.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Beale, Lewis. "Precious Freedom. USA Weekend Magazine. November 9, 2003.
- Geoffrey L Lewis; Cecil Roth. New Light on the Apostasy of Sabbatai Zevi. The Jewish Quarterly Review
- Khaled Abou Toameh. "Hamas forced professor to convert." Jerusalem Post. August 5, 2007.