Selebriti Mualaf Part 3

Dari Yahudi Ke Islam

Abdullah ibn Salam - 7th century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.
Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi - influential 12th century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.
Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al was an 12th century Arab Muslim mathematician and astronomer of Jewish descent.  His father was a Jewish Rabbi from Morocco, but al-Samawʾal converted to Islam.
Jacob Querido - 17th century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.
Leila Mourad - Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese journalist who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s. Later, after WWII, he became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations. Also translated the Qur'an into English and wrote several books on Islam. His son Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the City University of New York
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani - 13th century Persian physician
Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) -
a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.
Tali Fahima - Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.
Yaqub ibn Killis - 10th century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.

Dari Buddha Ke Islam

Daniel Moore - poet
The Barmakid family - originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near Balkh, upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early Abbasid caliphate.
Mahmud Ghazan - seventh ruler of the Ilkhanate.
Muhammad Khodabandeh - eighth Ilkhaid dynasty ruler in Iran from 1304 to 1316.
Mubarak Shah - head of the ulus of the Chagatai Khanate (1252–1260, March–September 1266).
Tarmashirin - Khan of the Chagatai Khanate following Duwa Timur.
Hussein Ye - An Islamic scholar of Chinese descent whose lectures are frequently aired on Peace TV.

Dari Hindu Ke Islam

Murshid Quli Khan - the Mughal governor of Bengal.
Malik Kafur - Indian military general.
Malik Maqbul - Prime Minister or Wazir of the Delhi Sultanate,during the reign of Feroz Shah Tughlaq.
Abdul Wahid Pedersen - Danish cleric.
Rama Varma Kulashekhara - Purportedly the first Indian king to accept Islam
Muhammed Yusuf Khan - Born Maruthanayagam Pillai, he converted to Islam and later served as Commandant for the British East India Company troops.
Divya Bharti - Indian actress who converted on marriage to producer Sajid Nadiadwala
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
Kabir Suman- Modern Bengali singer & songwriter officially converted to Islam from Hinduism in 2000.
Tansen - Notable musician and poet.
A.R. Rahman (stands for Allah Rakha Rahman) - Modern South Indian singer ,songwriter & Oscar winner officially converted to Islam from Hinduism.
Kamala Surayya - a.k.a. Madhavikutty (Malayalam: മാധവിക്കുട്ടി) (31 March 1934 – 31 May 2009) She was born in a conservative Hindu Nair (Nallappattu) family having Royal anscestry who was an Indian writer who openly and honestly discussed and wrote about the sexual desires of Indian women, which made her an iconoclast of her generation. She officially converted to Islam from Hinduism.
Steven Vikash Chand - Arrested in the 2006 Toronto terrorism arrests
Dhiren Barot - Born in India to a Hindu family, Barot was later sentenced to 40 years in prison in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to murder. Barot admitted to plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, the International Monetary Fund headquarters, and the World Bank, amongst other targets.

Dari Sikhism ke Islam

Ubaidullah Sindhi - religious leader and political activist.

Dari Paganism Ke Islam

Berke - grandson of Genghis Khan and leader of the Golden Horde who was the first Mongol ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state.
David Myatt - from Paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist
Negudar - Mongol general and noyan
Nogai Khan - Mongol general and great-grandson of Genghis Khan.
Samori Ture - founder of the Wassoulou Empire who resisted French rule in West Africa.
Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan - 9th century Uyghur ruler who was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.
Tuda Mengu - Mongol leader of the Golden Horde
Tughlugh Timur - the Khan of Moghulistan.

Dari Zoroastrianism ke Islam

Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa - author and translator of Kalīla wa Dimna from Middle Persian.
Fadl ibn Sahl - Persian vizier of the Abassid era.
Rattanbai Petit - second wife of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
Saman Khuda - founder of the Samanid dynasty, one of the first native Persian dynasties in the Middle East and Central Asia after the collapse of the Sassanids.

Dari Atheism Ke Islam

Zhang Chengzhi - contemporary Hui Chinese author; raised as an atheist.
Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)
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.
Nursultan Nazarbayev - The incumbent President of Kazakhstan. Formerly held atheistic views during the Soviet era.

Yang Belum Diketahui Agamanya Yang Masuk Islam

A
Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese origins.
Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.
Abdul Alim Musa - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.
Abdul Waheed (Don Stewart-Whyte) - accused of participating in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot.
Abdullah Ibrahim - South African Jazz musician.
Ahmad Jamal - Jazz pianist.
Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad - member of A Tribe Called Quest.
Alys Faiz - human rights and peace activist; converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

Amir Butler- author, engineer and Islamic activist.
Anthony Mundine - Australian Boxer, Former 2 time Super Middleweight Champion.
Apisai Tora - Fijian politician.

B
B.G. Knocc Out - American west coast rapper.
Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of Aga Khan III.
Bob Denard - French mercenary.
Brandon Mayfield - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings.
Busta Rhymes - American rapper, songwriter and actor

C
Charles Brooks, Jr. - converted while serving a sentence for murder; first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.
Celestino Caballero - Boxer, Current Super Bantamweight Champion.
Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen)- 8th Earl of Yarborough.
Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".
Christopher de Bellaigue - journalist and author
Christopher Paul (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.
Colleen LaRose - alleged intended assassin of Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
Craig Hodges - former NBA player.


D
David Hicks - convicted Australian terrorist.
Derrick Shareef- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans 22 December at the CherryVale Mall in Rockford, Illinois during the Christmas rush.
Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.
Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.

E
Edoardo Agnelli - eldest son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat.
Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.

F
Frithjof Schuon - metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.


G
Gary Legenhausen - American philosopher and writer.
Ghostface Killah - member of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Gigi Gryce - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.
Gustave-Henri Jossot - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.

H
Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools) - American sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.
H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.


I
Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Ibrahim Savant - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.
Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.
Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.

J
Jack Roche - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
Jan Janszoon - Dutch pirate.
Jason Walters - of the Netherlands, member of the Hofstad Network, convicted on charges of terrorism.
Jeff Fort - former Chicago gang leader, co-founder of the Black P. Stones gang, and founder of its El Rukn faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism.
Jeffrey Mark Deskovic - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.
Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to Imran Khan
John Allen Muhammad - convicted serial killer, known as the Beltway Sniper.
John Ward - (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.
Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.
José Padilla - the respondent in Rumsfeld v. Padilla currently on trial as an alleged al-Qaida operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.
Juan Carlos Gomez - Former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.

K
Kérim Chatty- Swedish bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped.
Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan of Jordan.

L
Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.
Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.

M
MC Ren - American rapper and hip-hop producer.
Malcolm X - American to Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam, African-American civil rights leader.
Malik ul Salih - established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai.
Maryam Jameelah - formerly Margret Marcus. Author of many books covering several subjects, including Modernism, Sociology, History, Jihad, Theology and Technology.
Maurice Béjart - French choreographer.
Mike Tyson (Malik Abdul Aziz) - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.
Mohammed Knut Bernström - Swedish ambassador.
Michael Wolfe - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of Unity Productions Foundation.
Michael X - civil rights activist in the United Kingdom

N
Nahshid Sulaiman - alternative hip hop artist.
Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi (born Lex Hixon) - syncretist, Sufi convert, and co-founder of the Nur Ashki Jerrahi Sufi Order in the United States.

O
Omar Ong Yoke Lin - (1917–2010) Malaysian politician, former government minister and founder of the Malaysian Chinese Association.
Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.

P
Philippe Grenier - (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.


Q
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.

R
Rakan Ben Williams - suspected member of Al-Qaeda terrorist.
Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.
Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.
Ronald Bell - musician.
Rory McLeod - British snooker player.

S
Sahib Shihab - jazz saxophonist and flautist.
Stephen Schwartz - American journalist, columnist, and author.
Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist who had worked in Iraq since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.

T
Thomas J. Abercrombie -Famous photographer and writer for National Geographic Magazine www.washingtonpost.com
Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysian actress.
Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.

U
Umar Islam - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the United Kingdom.

V
Vladimir Khodov - leader of the Beslan school hostage crisis- converted in prison.

W
Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.

Y
Yusuf Chambers - U.K. based Da'ee of international fame. Yusuf Chambers is a young preacher from London, has greatly involved himself in many organizations in U.K. and outside like Peace TV, Islam Channel, Al-Jumuah magazine, Unity TV etc.
Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician

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