Wednesday, 16 February 2011

LIST OF CONVERTS FROM JUDAISM TO ISLAAM

ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA

* Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.[180]
* Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi - influential 12th century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[181]
* Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al - 12th century mathematician and astronomer.[182][183]
* Ibn Sahl of Seville - 13th century Andalusian poet.[184]
* Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[185]
* Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.[186]
* Lev Nussimbaum - 20th century writer, journalist and orientalist.[187]
* Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.[188]
* Rashid-al-Din Hamadani - 13th century Persian physician[189]
* Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - 20th century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[190]
* Tali Fahima - Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.[191]
* Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[192]
* Youssef Darwish - a labour lawyer and activist[193] who was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

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