List Of Converts To Islam From Judaism

This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.

* Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 6th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
* Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wifeStowasser, Barbara. ''The Mothers of the Believers in the Hadith''. The Muslim World, Volume 82, Issue 1-2: 1-36.
* Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Baruch Ben Malka) – 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.
*Ya'qub ibn Killis 10th-century high-ranking official of the Fatimid Caliphate
* Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.
* Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.
* Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 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.
* Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century Jewish messiah claimant who converted to Islam under threat of death from the Ottoman authorities.

See also

*Islamic–Jewish relations
*Dönmeh, followers of Sabbatai Zevi who converted with him

References

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