List of converts to Islam from paganism

This is a List of converts to Islam from paganism.

Baraq - ruler of the Chagatai Khanate who took the name Ghiyas-ud-din after converting.[1]
Berke - grandson of Genghis Khan and leader of the Golden Horde who was the first Mongol ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state.[2]
Nogai Khan - Mongol general and great-grandson of Genghis Khan.[3]
Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan - 9th century Uyghur ruler who was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.[4]
Tuda Mengu - Mongol leader of the Golden Horde[5]
David Myatt - from paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist[6]
Nawrūz (Mongol emir) - convert to Islam;[7] he played an important role in the politics of the Mongol Ilkhanate.
Negudar - Mongol general and noyan[8]
Samori Ture - founder of the Wassoulou Empire who resisted French rule in West Africa.[9][10]
Tughlugh Timur - Khan of Moghulistan.[11]

References

The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith By Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, pg. 197
Devin De Weese, Devin A, ( DeWeese. "Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde", Penn State Press, 1 September 1994, ISBN 0-271-01073-8 pg.3
Vásáry, p.71
Asian Mythologies, By Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger, Gerald Honigsblum, pg. 337
Medieval Russia, 980-1584: 980-1584, By Janet Martin, by 171
David Myatt: From Neo-Nazi to Muslim Archived August 25, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
The fire, the star and the cross minority religions in medieval and early modern Iran, by Aptin Khanbaghi, pg. 69-70
The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful, pg. 226
Learning to Love Africa, By Monique Maddy, pg. 156
Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914, By Bruce Vandervort, pg. 128
Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East By Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh, pg. 30

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