List of converts to Islam from Judaism information
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This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.
Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 7th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[1]
Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wife[2]
Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Baruch Ben Malka) – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[3]
Ka'ab al-Ahbar – 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.[4][5]
Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.[6][7]
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.[8]
Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[9]
Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist[10] 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.[11]
Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician[12]
Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[13]
Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.[14]
Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.[15]
Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[16]
Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.[17]
Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.[18]
Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.[19]
Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century Jewish messiah claimant who converted to Islam under threat of death from the Ottoman authorities.[20]
^Muhammad ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life of Muhammad, pp. 240–241. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^Stowasser, Barbara. The Mothers of the Believers in the Hadith. The Muslim World, Volume 82, Issue 1-2: 1-36.
^Shanker, Stuart; Marenbon, John; Parkinson, George Henry Radcliffe (1998). Routledge History of Philosophy. Vol. 3. New York: Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 0415053773.
^Schmitz, M. (1974). "KaʿB al-Aḥbār,". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 316–317. ISBN 9004057455.
^Ṭabarī (4 November 1999). The History of Al-Tabari: The Sasanids, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. Vol. 5. SUNY Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-7914-4356-9.
^"Jewish Encyclopedia". Jewish Encyclopedia. n.d. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
^Gyug, Richard (2003). Medieval Cultures in Contact. New York: Fordham University Press. p. 123. ISBN 0823222128.
^"Biography of Muhammad Asad". Thetruecall.com. 23 February 1992. Archived from the original on 6 June 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
^"TAPS" (PDF). The Kablegram. Staunton Military Academy Foundation. July 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
^"Youssef Darwish: The courage to go on". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2 December 2004. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
^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.
^"Leila Mourad, Egyptian Film Actress, 77". The New York Times. Reuters. 23 November 1995. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
^Griffin, Miriam Tamara, ed. (2009). A companion to Julius Caesar. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 84. ISBN 140514923X.
^"Querido, Jacob". JewishEncyclopedia.com. n.d. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
^Wexler, Paul (1996). The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 84. ISBN 0791427951.
^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
^"SHABBETHAI ẒEBI B. MORDECAI - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
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