List of converts to Islam from Judaism

A

• Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.
• Abdallah Schleifer
• Abdul Haqq Al-Islami Former Rabbi convert to Islam from Sabta, Morocco.
• Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari - 9th century Persian scholar physician (a hakim), who produced the first encyclopedia of medicine
• al-Hajj Abd al-Salam al Kuhin a Moroccan Jewish trader that converted to Islam and setteled in Timbuktu.
• Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari a well-known Jewish convert to Islam doctor, belonging to the famous medical school of Tabaristan or Hyrcania) & a tutor of medicine to Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (known to the West as Rhazes).
• Amalia Rehman Israeli-born Jew who converted to Islam

E

• Emad-ud-Deen or Richard Leiman

H

• Hajj Mustafa Ali an American Jewish convert to Islam Sufi Rifa'i ^[161]
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi - influential physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.^[162]

I

• Ibn Kammuna or was a 13th Century physician (ophthalmologist) and philosopher who lived in Baghdad.
• Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al was an Arab Muslim mathematician and astronomer of Jewish descent. His father was a Jewish Rabbi from Morocco, but al-Samawʾal converted to Islam.
• Ismael Diadie Haidara a historian from Timbuktu, his grand father was a converted Jew.

J

• Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi
• Josh Hasan an American Jew from Brookline, Massachusetts ^[
• Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, that was married to Imran Khan ^[168]

K

• Ka'ab al-Ahbar an Arab Jew later on became a Sahaby.

L

• Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.
• Leopold Weiss or Muhammad Asad see below.
• 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.

M

• Maryam Jameelah an American Jew
• Michael Wolfe
• Mohammed Yusuf a Jewish convert to Islam that fought in Bosnia
• Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations
• Muhammad Samuels a former Jew of Eastern European extraction, an American by birth from Bronx, New York
• Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al - mathematician and astronomer who wrote critical works on Judaism, his former faith.
• Musa the Muslim Ex-Rabbi of Makhachkala
• Dr. Moustafa Mould an American teacher of linguistics
• Mgumbe Gumbatiqua Former Porn star

N

• Nasim Nisr

Q

• Qamar al Khattab^[

R

• Rashid al-Din - 13th century Persian physician

S

• Sabbatai Zevi
• Safiyya bint Huyayy
• Samau'al al-Maghribi a twelfth century Jewish convert to Islam see above Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al
• Samuel L. Lewis
• Sarmad - 17th century mystical poet and sufi saint, arrived from Persia to India, beheaded for assumed heresy by Aurungzebe.
• Sayeed Udeen
• Sind b. ‘Ali a Iraqi Jewish convert to Islam
• Suleyman Ahmad an American journalist and author
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.

U

• Uri Davis

W

• Wahb ibn Munabbih

Y

• Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.
• Yousef Al-Khattab a Jewish convert to Islam^[

source :www.wikipedia.com

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