Showing posts with label Converts to Islam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Converts to Islam. Show all posts
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- Abd al Malik - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano — French rapper of Congolese origins.
- Abd al Haqq Kielan - Swedish cleric.
- Abdallah Schleifer - prominent Middle East expert, former NBC Cairo Bureau chief, and a professor of TV journalism at the American University in Cairo who converted to SufiIslam.
- 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.
- Ajdin Muzaka - was the commander in the Battle of Torvioll.
- 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.
- Antoni Aleksander Iliński - a Polish-Ottoman military officer and general.
- Apisai Tora - Fijian politician.
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- Batool Al-Toma - Irishwoman who is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism.
- 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.
- Busta Rhymes - American rapper, songwriter and actor
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- Celestino Caballero - Boxer and former Super Bantamweight Champion.
- Charles John Pelham (Abdul Mateen)- 8th Earl of Yarborough.
- Christian Ganczarski- Head of "al Qaeda in Europe".
- Christopher de Bellaigue - British journalist and author
- Colleen LaRose - alleged intended assassin of Danish cartoonist Lars Vilks.
- Craig Hodges - former NBA player.
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- Divine Styler - American hip-hop musician.
- Dwight Muhammad Qawi - Former boxing world Light Heavyweight and Cruiserweight champion.
- Divya Bharti (Late) Indian Actress married with Sajid Nadiadwala.
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- Edoardo Agnelli - eldest son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat.
- Lady Evelyn Cobbold - Scottish noblewoman.
- Everlast - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.
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- Frithjof Schuon - Swiss-German metaphysician, poet, painter, philosopher and 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.
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- H. Rap Brown - civil rights activisit.
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- Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)..
- Idris Muhammad - American jazz musician.
- Iliaş Colceag - Moldavian military commander in the Ottoman and Russian Empire.
- Isabelle Eberhardt - explorer and writer.
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- Jadel Gregório - a Brazilian athlete.
- James Achilles Kirkpatrick - was the British Resident in Hyderabad.
- Jemima Goldsmith daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to Imran Khan
- Jesse of Kakheti - a ruler of Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1614 to 1615.
- Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.
- Juan Carlos Gomez - Former Cruiserweight Boxing Champion.
- Julia Volkova - Russian singer and actress best known as a member of the Russian pop duo, t.A.T.u., along with Lena Katina.
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- Khaled Edward Blair - British barrister, later married Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan of Jordan.
- Khalid Sheldrake - an English pickle manufacturer who established a branch of the Western Islamic Association in South Shields in 1930.
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- Larry Johnson - retired American professional basketball player.
- Lauren Booth - a British broadcaster, journalist and human rights activist.
- Li Nu - a Chinese scholar in the Ming dynasty who visited Persia, converted to Islam, married a Persian or an Arab girl and brought her back to Quanzhou in Fujian.
- Lim Yew Hock - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.
- Lewis Arquette - actor and father of actors David Arquette and Rosanna Arquette; father-in-law of actress Courtney Cox.
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- 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.
- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
- Omar Epps - American actor, singer, songwriter, and record producer.
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- Philippe Fragione - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.
- Philippe Grenier - (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.
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- 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.
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- Robert "Kool" Bell - musician.
- Robert D. Crane - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.
- Rodrigo de Triana - sailor and the first European since the Vikings known to have seen America who converted to Islam from Judaism or Christianity.
- Ronald Bell - musician.
- Rory McLeod - British snooker player.
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- Sahib Shihab - American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
- Saida Miller Khalifa - British author who was originally called Sonya Miller.
- Shaheed Akbar - notable rapper who converted to Islam.
- Sonny Bill Williams - Former NRL player and current All Black, Professional boxer.
- 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.
- Sharmila Tagore - Indian film actress. Converted after marriage to M A Patudi.
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- Thomas J. Abercrombie - famous photographer and writer for National Geographic
- Tiara Jacquelina - Malaysian actress.
- Titus Burckhardt - Swiss writer and scholar.
- Tony Hussein Hinde - Australian-born Maldivian surfer and surfing pioneer who converted to Islam.
- Uri Davis - an academic and activist who works on civil rights in Israel, Palestinian National Authority and the Middle East.
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- Vernel Fournier - jazz drummer.
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- Walt Hazzard - former NBA player.
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- Yusef Lateef - American Jazz musician.
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