List of converts to Islam from Judaism
This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.
- Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[1]
- Ka'ab al-Ahbar - 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.[2][3]
- Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.[4][5]
- Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.[6]
- Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[7]
- Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist[8] 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.[9]
- Jemima Goldsmith – a British TV, film and documentary producer, journalist and campaigner.
- Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician[10]
- Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[11]
- Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.[12]
- Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.[13]
- Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[14]
- Abdullah ibn Salam – 7th-century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.[15]
- Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.[16]
- Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.[17]
- Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.[18]
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- ↑ Schmitz, M. (1974). "KaʿB al-Aḥbār,". Encyclopaedia of Islam. 4 (2nd ed.). Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 316–317. ISBN 9004057455.
- ↑ Ṭabarī (1999-11-04). The History of Al-Tabari: The Sasanids, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. 5. SUNY Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-7914-4356-9.
- ↑ "Jewish Encyclopedia". Jewish Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
- ↑ Gyug, Richard (2003). Medieval Cultures in Contact. New York: Fordham University Press. p. 123. ISBN 0823222128.
- ↑ "Biography of Muhammad Asad". Thetruecall.com. 1992-02-23. Archived from the original on 2009-06-06. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
- ↑ "TAPS" (PDF). The Kablegram. Staunton Military Academy Foundation. July 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-10-06. Retrieved 2007-02-06.
- ↑ "Youssef Darwish: The courage to go on". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2004-12-02. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
- ↑ Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica. "Encyclopædia Britannica, "Rashid ad-Din", 2007". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
- ↑ Cohen, Mark R.; Somekh, Sasson (1990). "In the Court of Yaʿqūb Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah". Jewish Quarterly Review. 80 (3/4): 283–314. JSTOR 1454972.
- ↑ Reuters (1995-11-23). "Leila Mourad, Egyptian Film Actress, 77". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
- ↑ Griffin, Miriam Tamara, ed. (2009). A companion to Julius Caesar. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 84. ISBN 140514923X.
- ↑ "Querido, Jacob". JewishEncyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2010-04-07.
- ↑ E12, I. 52 (Horovitz, Joseph (1918). "Muhammeds Himmelfahrt". Der Islam. 9 (1). doi:10.1515/islm.1918.9.1.95. ; Ibn Hajar Asqalni, Isaba fi Tamyiizi al-Sahaba, II. 312-3
- ↑ Wexler, Paul (1996). The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 84. ISBN 0791427951.
- ↑ Ignác Goldziher, Schools of Koranic commentators, pg. 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006.
- ↑ Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 5, pg. 174, fascicules 81-82. Eds. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, E. van Donzel, Bernard Lewis and Charles Pellat. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1980. ISBN 9789004060562
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