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List of converts to Islam from Judaism
This is a
list of
notable converts to
Islam
from Judaism
.
Abdullah ibn Salam
– 6th-century companion of the
Islamic prophet
Muhammad
.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
–
Muhammad's wife
Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi
– influential 12th-century
physicist
, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of
Aristotelian philosophy
and
Aristotelian physics
.
Ka'ab al-Ahbar
– 7th-century
Yemenite Jew
. Considered to be the earliest
authority
on
Isra'iliyyat
and
South Arabian
lore.
Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al
– 12th-century mathematician and
astronomer
.
Muhammad Asad
– Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to
the United
Nations.
Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey
– 20th-century pioneer in the development of
Islamic culture in the United States
.
Youssef Darwish
– labour lawyer and activist 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
.
Tali Fahima
–
Israeli left-wing
activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters.
Converted to Islam
in
Umm al-Fahm
in
June 2010
.
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
– 13th-century
Persian
physician
Yaqub ibn Killis
– 10th-century
Egyptian vizier
under the
Fatimids
.
Leila Mourad
– Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
Lev Nussimbaum
– 20th-century writer, journalist and
orientalist
.
Jacob Querido
– 17th-century successor of the
self-proclaimed
Jewish Messiah
Sabbatai Zevi
.
Ibn Sahl of Seville
– 13th-century Andalusian poet.
Harun ibn Musa
– 8th-century scholar of
Hadith
and
Qira'at
, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.
Al-Ru'asi
– 8th-century scholar of
Arabic grammar
and the founder of the
Kufan
school of grammar.