List of converts to Islam from nontheism

This is a list of notable people who have converted to Islam after a period where they claimed to be atheistic or non-theistic.

Name Notes Refs
Gai Eaton British diplomat and writer. [1][2]
Silma Ihram Née Anne Frances Beaumont; Australian educator, author, and racial tolerance campaigner. After an agnostic upbringing she became "born again Christian" and then Muslim. [3]
Martin Lings Widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam. [4]
Ingrid Mattson Canadian scholar and former president of the Islamic Society of North America; was raised in Catholicism but left it years before conversion. [5][6]
Nursultan Nazarbayev Former President of Kazakhstan. [7]
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez "Carlos the Jackal" - Marxist who was convicted of terrorism and converted to Islam. [8]
G. (Gwendolyn) Willow Wilson American comics writer, prose author, essayist, and journalist; relaunched the Ms. Marvel title for Marvel Comics starring a 16-year-old Muslim superhero named Kamala Khan. She was an atheist and grew up as such. [9][10]
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See also

References
  1. The Radical Middle Way - Hasan Le Gai Eaton Archived September 7, 2012, at Archive.today
  2. "Charles Le Gai Obituary". The Guardian. April 19, 2010.
  3. FAIR (pdf) Archived August 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Martin Lings, a Sufi Writer on Islamic Ideas, Dies at 96". The New York Times. May 29, 2005. Retrieved May 8, 2010. He was raised a Protestant, and later became an atheist, according to Zaman, a Turkish newspaper.
  5. Edward E. Curtis, ed. (2010). "Mattson, Ingrid". Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. Infobase Publishing. p. 362.
  6. "A View from the Edge". Commonweal Magazine. February 11, 2013.
  7. "Heard the one about the rabbi, the imam, and the Buddhist monk?". The Independent. July 6, 2009. He [Nicholas Baines, then-Anglican Bishop of Croydon] has watched Mr. Nazarbayev transform himself from an open atheist into pro-religion leader who has even made the Haj pilgrimage.
  8. "'Jackal' book praises Bin Laden". BBC. June 26, 2003.
  9. Wilson, G. Willow (March 25, 2015). "Islam Sci-fi Interview of G. Willow Wilson (Part I)". Islam and Science Fiction (Interview). Interviewed by Rebecca Hankins.
  10. Wilson, G. Willow (June 20, 2010). "Beneath the veil". Boston.com (Interview). Interviewed by Ideas.
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