Kuuluisia Islamiin palanneita henkilöitä

Uskonnollisia henkilöitä (pappeja, saarnaajia..)



* Abudul-Ahad Dawud (David Benjamin Keldani) - from Catholicism, former Roman Catholic priest of the Uniate-Chaldean sect scholar from Harvard & a former deacon of United Methodist church

* Abdul-Ahad Omar (Gary Miller) - from Christianity, former priest & missionary administration of the Committee on Relations with Public Associations

* Jacob Querido - from Judaism, successor to Shabbetai Tzvi

* Abu Yahya (Jerald F. Dirks) - from Christianity, Hollis

* Shabbetai Tzvi - from Judaism, claimed to be messiah

* Umar Faruq Abd-Allah - from Protestantism, Islamic scholar

* Viacheslav Polosin - former Archpriest of the Russian Orthodox church

* Yusuf Estes - from Christianity, former pastor & prison chaplain



Poliitikkoja



* Khaled Edward Blair - English barrister, married to Princess Badiya of Jordan

* Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African, from Catholicism, President and Emperor of the Central African Republic (later reconverted to Catholicism)

* Omar Bongo - Gabonese, President of Gabon

* Torquato Cardilli - Italian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia

* Keith Ellison - American, from Catholicism, Minnesota state legislator

* Thomas Haidon - New Zealander, from Catholicism, lawyer & government advisor

* Murad Wilfred Hofmann - from Catholic Christianity, NATO official

* Ibrahim Hooper (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist

* Iyasu V - Ethiopian, former Emperor of Ethiopia

* Mathieu Kérékou - Beninese, from Christianity, President of Benin (later reconverted to Christianity)

* Yousef al-Khattab (Yosef Cohen) - from Orthodox Judaism, converted with his wife & children.

* Johann von Leers - advisor to Muhammad Naguib known for his anti-Semitic polemics.

* David Myatt - from Paganism, Neo-Nazi-activist

* Karl Nickner - Executive Director of CAIR-CAN

* David Musa Pidcock - British, from Catholicism, leader of the Islamic Party of Britain

* El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X, Malcolm Little) - American, from Christianity to NOI to mainstream Islam, African-American civil rights leader.

* Apisai Tora - Fijian politician

* Sabrina Varroni - Italian fined € 80 for wearing a burqa in Drezzo, Italy sparking a controversy in Italian politics



Urheilijoita



* Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar (Sharmon Shah) - American, from Christianity, former NFL football player

* Ahmed Santos - American publicist & former boxer

* Anthony Mundine - Australian, from Christianity, boxer and former rugby player

* Bernard Hopkins - boxer

* Bruno Metsu - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup

* Chris Eubank - boxer

* Danny Williams - British boxer

* Dwight Muhammad Qawi - boxer

* Franck Ribery - French football player, currently plays for Marseille

* Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer

* Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf (Chris Jackson) - American, from Christianity, retired basketball player

* Matthew Saad Muhammad - from Catholicism, former boxer

* Mike Tyson American, former heavyweight boxing champion of the world



* Mohammad Yousuf (Yousuf Youhana) - Pakistani, from Christianity, cricket player

* Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), American, from Christianity to NOI to Sunni Islam to Sufism, retired boxer

* Mustafa Hamsho - boxer

* Nicolas Anelka - French football player

* Philippe Troussier - French, former football player & trainer of a Japanese football team

* Rasheed Wallace - American basketball player



Scholars



* Hamid Algar - British professor at the University of California, Berkeley, expert in the Ja'fari school of thought & Iranian civilization

* Aminah Assilmi - from Southern Baptist Christianity, scholar & director of the International Union of Muslim Women

* Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker - professor of Urdu, former chair of the University of Minnesota's Department of South Asian studies and creator of theTékumel fantasy world.

* Kevin Barrett - lecturer, conspiracy theorist

* Nuh Ha Mim Keller - from Catholicism to agnosticism to Sufism, Islamic scholar

* Sherman Jackson - Islamic scholar & Academic, Near East Studies & Law School at the University of Michigan

* Martin Lings - from Protestantism to Sufism* Maimonides - Jewish philosopher, theologian, and physician forced to convert to Islam under pain of death during the Cordoba massacre of 1148.

* Ingrid Mattson - Canadian scholar

* Thomas McElwain - (disputed) from Baptist Christianity, former minister, a Professor of History & Comparative religion* Bilal Philips - from Christianity, Islamic scholar & author

* Muhammad Pickthall (Marmaduke Pickthall) - from Christianity, a translator of the Qur'an

* Zaid Shakir - Islamic scholar

* Haschem Wilde - British professor

* Timothy J. Winter - lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge

* Khalid Yasin - American, from Christianity, Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute (ITI)

* Hamza Yusuf - from Orthodox Christianity - Islamic scholar



Filosofeja



* Sheikh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya (René Guénon) - French, from Catholicism to Sufism, philosopher

* Roger Garaudy - French philosopher & writer

* Titus Burckhardt - philosopher, historian & mystic



Media, taide ja viihde



* Ali Bey al-Abbasi - writer, explorer (disputed)

* Muhammed al-Ahari - American, from Christianity, essayist

* Muhammad Asad - from Judaism, writer

* Amir Butler - Australian, a Salafi author

* Steve Centanni - American journalist, forced to convert to Islam by Islamist kidnappers in the Gaza Strip as a condition for his release.

* Dave Chappelle - comedian & television star

* Ian Dallas - writer

* Isabelle Eberhardt - from Lutheran Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer

* Everlast - American, singer/songwriter

* Knud Holmboe - 20th century Danish journalist & explorer

* Abdullah Ibrahim (A. J. Brand) - South African pianist & composer

* Ice Cube - Rapper & Actor

* Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) - British, from Greek Orthodox Christianity, musician & singer

* Jermaine Jackson (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of The Jackson 5 and brother of popstars Michael and Janet Jackson

* Maryam Jameelah - from Reform Judaism, essayist, poet, journalist & author

* Ruqayyah Waris Maqsood - British, from Protestant Christianity, author

* Daniel Moore - from Christianity, poet

* Mos Def - American rapper & actor

* Lev Nussimbaum - from Judaism, writer

* Harry St. John Philby - from Anglicanism, Arabist, explorer, writer & British colonial office intelligence operative

* William Abdullah Quilliam - from Christianity, poet, solicitor, ambassador & journalist

* A. R. Rahman ( A.S. Dileep Kumar) - Indian, from Hinduism, music film composer and director

* Yvonne Ridley - British journalist, converted from Anglicanism after being kidnapped by the Taliban.

* Stephen Schwartz - Jewish born, Protestant mother, Sufi neoconservative journalist

* Kamala Suraiya - Indian, from Hinduism, writer

* Pamela Taylor - writer and board member of the Progressive Muslim Union

* Alexander Russell Webb - American, from Presbyterian Christianity, 19th Century U.S. journalist

* Olaf Wiig - New Zealand cameraman, forced to convert to Islam by Islamist kidnappers in the Gaza Strip as a condition for his release.

* Michael Wolfe - writer & documentarist

* Michael Jackson - singer/songwriter

* Dawud Wharnsby Ali - Canadian Singer/poet, from christianity

* scarface-rapper,producer from christianity



Mystikot



* Samuel L. Lewis - aka Ahmed Murad Chisti or Sufi Sam

* Daniel Moore - Sufi poet



Society



* Jemima Goldsmith - British, from Judaism, socialite & ex-wife of Imran Khan

* Heather Laird-Jackson - American, from Christianity, Muslim activist & wife of Dr. Sherman A. Jackson

* Ayesha Sultana (Sharmila Tagore) - Bangladeshi-Indian, from Hinduism, Bollywood actress, converted to marry Mansur Ali Khan, the Nawab of Pataudi



Tiede



* Jeffrey Lang - American, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kansas

* Susanne Osthoff - German archaeologist & former hostage in Iraq



Armeija



* Mehemet Ali - German-born Ottoman general

* Józef Bem - Polish-Hungarian general

* Claude Alexandre de Bonneval - French-born Austrian general

* Jacques-Francois Menou - French general, governor of Egypt

* Omer Pasha - From Serbian Orthodoxy, Bosnian general

* Suleiman Pasha - French-born Egyptian general

* Rudolf Carl von Slatin - Austrian lietenant and British colonial administrator (conversion nominal)