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'''PT Medisata Global Solusi''' adalah sebuah [[perusahaan jasa]] layanan [[kesehatan]] di [[Indonesia]] yang membantu orang-orang untuk berobat ke luar negeri.
==Dari [[Agama Ibrahim]]==
===Dari [[Kristen|Kristiani]]===
 
==Gambaran umum==
[[Image:Ellison-hs.JPG|right|thumb|122px|[[Keith Ellison (poilitis)|Keith Ellison]] adalah Muslim pertama yang menjadi anggota kongres AS.]]
Perusahaan ini didirikan pada tahun 2017, dimana pelayanannya mencakup membantu [[pasien]] untuk mendapatkan pelayanan terbaik di rumah sakit internasional di [[Malaysia]] dan [[Singapura]], <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.medisata.com/tentang/|archiveurl=https://www.medisata.com/tentang/|title=Tentang Medisata Indonesia|website=Medisata Indonesia|date=28 September 2019|archivedate=28 September 2019|accessdate=28 September 2019}}</ref> dengan nama layanan '''Medisata Indonesia'''.
[[Image:Bonneval-pasha.jpg|thumb|120px|right|[[Claude Alexandre de Bonneval]] dikenal sebagai ''Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa'']]
[[File:Dave Chappelle (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|122px|[[Dave Chappelle]], komedian.]]
[[Image:Ali.jpg|right|thumb|122px|[[Muhammad Ali]]- masuk Islam.]]
[[Image:Malcolm X NYWTS 2a.jpg|thumb|right|122px|[[Malcolm X]]- pemimpin hak asasi]]
[[Image:Mohammed Zakariya.png|thumb|122px|[[Mohammed Zakariya]]]]
[[File:EllenBurstyn07TIFF.jpg|thumb|122px|[[Ellen Burstyn]]]]
[[File:Kareem Abdul Jabbar crop.jpg|thumb|122px|[[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], pemain [[NBA]]]]
[[Image:Chriseubank.jpg|right|thumb|122px|[[Chris Eubank]] adalah petinju Inggris]]
[[File:Pickthall1.jpg|right|thumb|122px|[[Marmaduke Pickthall]], adalah mualaf Inggris yang menterjemahkan al-Qur'an kedalam bahasa Inggris]]
 
[[Perusahaan]] ini didirikan berdasarkan pengalaman pemiliknya yang ketika berobat ke Malaysia menemukan perbedaan [[diagnosa]] dengan [[daftar rumah sakit di Indonesia|rumah sakit di Indonesia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lifestyle.bisnis.com/read/20190412/106/910975/medisata-fasilitasi-puluhan-ribu-pasien-indonesia-berobat-ke-luar-negeri|title=Medisata Fasilitasi Puluhan Ribu Pasien Indonesia Berobat ke Luar Negeri|website=Bisnis.com|date=12 April 2019|archivedate=12 April 2019|accessdate=28 September 2019}}</ref> Atas hal tersebut, pemilik sekaligus pendiri perusahaan ini berkeinginan membantu [[masyarakat]] Indonesia untuk mendapatkan [[kesehatan|pelayanan kesehatan]] terbaik di Malaysia dan Singapura.
====A====
 
==Layanan==
* [[Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar]] (Sharmon Shah) - mantan pemain NFL<ref>"NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wants NFL player to stop using name - the former Sharmon Shah, Miami Dolphin running back being sued by former basketball player" Jet Online. Dec. 1, 1997. Johnson Publishing Co.</ref>
Perusahaan ini menyediakan jasa pelayanan kesahatan di [[rumah sakit]] besar di Malaysia dan Singapura. Perusahaan ini telah bekerjasama dengan beberapa rumah sakit di [[Penang]], [[Johor]], [[Kuching]], [[Malaka]], [[Kuala Lumpur]] dan [[Singapura]].
* [[Abdur Raheem Green]]
* [[Abu Tammam]] - penyair Arab abad ke-9, lahir beragama Kristen.<ref>Ibn Ab̄i Tahir Ṭāyfūr and Arabic writerly culture a ninth-century bookman in Baghdad RoutledgeCurzon Studies in Arabic and Middle-Eastern Literatures: A Ninth-century Bookman in Baghdad, By Shawkat M. Toorawa, pg. 94</ref>
* [[Abu Usamah]] - controversial American-born Imam of [[Green Lane Masjid]] in [[Birmingham]], [[UK]]. Accused of preaching messages of hate towards non-Muslims in a UK Television documentary.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/aug/08/broadcasting.race Guardian newspaper report on police investigation into undercover mosque program. Wednesday August 8 2007]</ref>
* [[Ahmad Rashād]] - [[Emmy]] award-winning sportscaster (mostly with [[NBC Sports]]) and former [[American football]] [[wide receiver]].<ref>[http://www.tv.com/ahmad-rashad/person/4497/biography.html Ahmad Rashad Bio - Ahmad Rashad Biography - Ahmad Rashad Stories<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.vikingstickets.com/main/players/Ahmad+Rashad Minnesota Vikings Football Tickets - Vikings Football - Vikings Tickets<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ahmed Deedat]] - Indian-South African preacher
* [[Ahmed Santos (militant)|Ahmed Santos]] - [[Philippines|Filipino]], fugitive, founder of the [[Rajah Solaiman Movement]] & suspected by Filipino authorities to be an [[Al Qaeda]] operative converted from [[Catholicism]]<ref>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1128/p07s02-woap.html In Philippines, watchful eye on converts csmonitor.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.crisisgroup.org/library/documents/asia/philippines/110_philippines_terrorism_the_role_of_militant_islamic_converts.pdf Militant Islamic Converts And Terrorism In The Philippines<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=4690 MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ahmad Thomson]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] [[barrister]] and writer and also a member of the [[Murabitun]] movement.<ref>Thomson, Ahmad – Author Information [http://www.ibooks.nl/products.php?aid=10 Ibooks]</ref>
* [[Akhenaton (rapper)|Akhenaton]] - French rapper and producer of [[French hip hop]].<ref>Global Noise, By Tony Mitchell, pg. 72</ref>
* [[Alexander Litvinenko]] - former FSB officer converted to Islam on his deathbed.<ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article664318.ece Litvinenko converted to Islam, father says - Times Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/12/E4B19AB3-82B6-45C8-BABB-A13B7CEAB243.html Litvinenko's Father Says Son Requested Muslim Burial - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Alexander Russell Webb]] - Former [[Presbyterian]].<ref>Islam in America, By Jane I. Smith, pg. 189</ref> American journalist, newspaper owner, and former Consul-General of the U.S.A. in the Philippines.<ref>[http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/june02_index.php?l=32 Conversion: Islam, the growing religion<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-160168134.html The "Yankee Mohammedan": Alexander Russell Webb and the<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[André Carson]] - former [[Baptist]],<ref>[http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080216/NATION/998204590/1002 Islam Convert seeks a seat in Congress]</ref> second [[Muslim]] to serve the [[United States Congress]].<ref>[http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/03/catching-up-ind.html Catching up: Indiana's Carson will replace his grandmother in Congress]</ref>
* Anthony Green or [[Abdul Raheem Green]], Converted from Catholicism to Islam, and is now an Islamic lecturer.<ref>[http://youtube.com/watch?v=xbMVkomJhHw YouTube - Why I Came to Islam: Abdur Raheem Green<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Art Blakey]] - [[United States|American]] [[Jazz]] musician<ref>[http://www.artblakey.com/ Art Blakey official site] In 1948, Art told reporters he had visited Africa, where he learned polyrhythmic drumming and was introduced to Islam, taking the name Abdullah Ibn Buhaina.</ref>
* [[Aukai Collins]] - fought in [[Chechnya]], paid [[FBI]] [[informant]], author of an [[autobiographical]] book<ref>[http://dir.salon.com/story/books/review/2002/07/17/myjihad/index.html "My Jihad" - Salon.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Anthony Mundine]] - former Australian rugby league player for the St George Illawarra Dragons and now a boxer
 
Beberapa rumah sakit tersebut adalah:
====B====
# Island Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
# Gleneagles Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
# Loh Guan Lye Specialist Centre, Penang, Malaysia
# Pantai Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
# Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
# KPJ Specialist Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
# George Town Specialist Hospital, Penang, Malaysia
# Mahkota Medical Centre, Malaka, Malaysia
# Pantai Hospital Ayer Keroh, Malaka, Malaysia
# Gleneagles Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# Sunway Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# Beacon Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# Prince Court Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# Pantai Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# Institut Jantung Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
# KPJ Specialist Hospital, Johor, Malaysia
# Gleneagles Hospital, Johor, Malaysia
# Timberland Medical Centre, Kuching, Malaysia
# Borneo Medical Centre, Kuching, Malaysia
# KPJ Specialist Hospital, Kuching, Malaysia
# Mount Elizabeth, Singapura
# Gleneagles, Singapura
# Mount Elizabeth Novena, Singapura
# Farrer Park Hospital, Singapura
# Mount Alverna, Singapura
 
* [[Benjamin Chavis]] - controversial former head of the [[NAACP]]; joined the Nation of Islam.
* [[Bernard Hopkins]] - [[United States|American]] boxer<ref>[http://observer.guardian.co.uk/2001review/story/0,,623766,00.html Ex-champion Naseem Hamed's comeback battle Special reports | The Observer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Betty Shabazz]] - wife of [[Malcolm X]]; former Methodist.<ref>[http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/shabazz_b.htm Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Betty Shabazz<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Bilal Philips]] - Islamic scholar and author<ref>[http://www.bilalphilips.com/bilal_pages.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240 Dr.Bilal Philips' Official website<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Bruno Metsu]] - French coach of the Senegal team at the 2002 FIFA World Cup<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/07/31/soccer_ed3__8.php SOCCER : Metsu's magic ride ends - International Herald Tribune<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====C==Rujukan==
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* [[Count Cassius]]- Visigothic aristocrat who founded the [[Banu Qasi]] dynasty of [[Muladi]] rulers.<ref name="Auñamendi">[http://euskomedia.org/aunamendi/10935 Banu Kasi], [http://euskomedia.org/aunamendi/29699 Casius], [http://euskomedia.org/aunamendi/54481 Kasi] and [http://euskomedia.org/aunamendi/105201 Qasi] in the Spanish-language ''Auñamendi Encyclopedia''.</ref>
* [[Chris Eubank]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] boxer<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/01/wislam601.xml Telegraph.co.uk - Lengthy queue to join religion that offers 'sense of direction']</ref>
* [[Claude Alexandre de Bonneval]] or Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa is 18th century French nobleman.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-73179/Claude-Alexandre-Comte-de-Bonneval Claude Alexandre, Comte de Bonneval, or Humbaraci Ahmed Pasa (French noble) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====D====
 
* [[Daniel Moore (poet)|Daniel Moore]] - poet <ref>Moore, Abd al-Hayy. [http://www.unh.edu/msa/iiie10.htm CHOOSING ISLAM: ONE MAN'S TALE]. University of New Hampshire.</ref>
* [[Danny Thompson]] - [[England|English]] [[double bass]] player converted from [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/musicshow/stories/2007/1948816.htm The Music Show - 24 February 2007 - Danny Thompson<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Danny Williams (boxer)|Danny Williams]] - British boxer<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/content/articles/2005/10/07/danny_williams_071005_feature.shtml BBC - Beds Herts and Bucks - Sport - Williams on boxing: I am not supposed to do it!<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[David Belfield]] - American, fled to [[Iran]] after [[Assassination|assassinating]] [[Ali Akbar Tabatabai]], an Iranian [[dissident]].<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?020805fa_fact]</ref>
* [[David Benjamin Keldani]], a former Catholic priest.
* [[Dave Chappelle]] - comedian and television star <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1061415,00.html On the Beach With Dave Chappelle - TIME<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Dawud Wharnsby Ali]] (David Wharnsby) - Canadian singer/poet.<ref>[http://www.islamonline.net/livedialogue/english/Browse.asp?hGuestID=2djsjt IslamonLine.net<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.myspace.com/wharnsby MySpace.com - Dawud Wharnsby - Colorado - Folk Rock / Acoustique / A'cappella - www.myspace.com/wharnsby<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====E====
* [[Ellen Burstyn]] - American film actress, converted from Catholicism to Sufi Islam during the 1970s.<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/650/000023581/ Ellen Burstyn] NNDB. Retrieved on 2009-12-24.</ref>
* [[Elsa Kazi]] - [[Germany|German]] writer of [[one-act play]]s, [[short stories]], [[novel]]s and [[history]], and one of the greatest [[poet]]s of her time.
* [[Éric Abidal]] (changed his name to Bilal) - French football player, currently playing for [[FC Barcelona]], converted to Islam after marriage.<ref>[http://www.internetspor.com/v3/futbol/haber.php?haberID=58738 Abidal become Muslim with a name Bilal]</ref>
* [[Everlast]] - Rapper from the Irish-American hip-hop group [[House of Pain]], converted From [[Catholicism]]. [http://www.uga.edu/islam/everlast_banjoko.html]
 
====F====
 
* [[Franck Ribéry]]- a French football player. His name after he converted to Islam is Bilal.<ref>[http://worldcup.sportinglife.com/football/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/07/04/WORLDCUP_France_Ribery.html RIBERY HAILS GREAT ZIDANE: Sporting Life 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany, Breaking News, Features, Cannavaro, Zidane, Lippi, Domenech, Buffon, Vieira, Henry<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====G====
 
* [[Gabriele Torsello]] - [[Italy|Italian]] [[freelance]] photojournalist based in [[London]] who was abducted in [[Helmand Province]], [[Afghanistan]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6061236.stm BBC NEWS South Asia | Afghan kidnappers 'want convert'<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[George XI of Kartli]] - Saffavid commander.<ref>[http://www.iranica.com/articles/v11f2/v11f2041.html Iranica.com - GORGIN KHAN<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Germaine Lindsay]] - one of the suicide terrorists in the [[7 July 2005 London bombings]]<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref> [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1898856,00.html Western white woman a suicide bomber - World - Times Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=113 ICT - International Institute for Counter-Terrorism<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> in which 52 people were murdered.
 
====H====
 
* [[Hamza Yusuf]] - American convert from [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Greek Orthodox]]; head of the [[Zaytuna Institute]].<ref>[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6057297 NPR: Convert Plays Leadership Role in Muslim Community<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Hedley Churchward]] - English painter<ref>[http://www.masud.co.uk/ISLAM/bmh/BMH-IRO-famous_muslims.htm Famous London Muslims<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====I====
 
* [[Ian Dallas]] - Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi - Sufi [[shaykh]] of [[Scotland|Scottish]] origins.<ref>''The Collected Works'' by Ian Dallas, Budgate Press, 2005, ISBN 0-620-34379-6</ref>
* [[Ibrahim Muteferrika]] (original name not known) - From [[Unitarian Christianity]], an early example of a Muslim publisher and printer.<ref>[http://vitrine.library.uu.nl/wwwroot/en/texts/Rarqu54.htm UU site]</ref>
* [[Ice Cube]] - Superstar Rapper from compton to Nation of Islam
* [[Ilie II Rareş]] - prince of Moldavia.<ref>'''The Historians' History of the World''' by Henry Smith Williams, p. 137, published 1907</ref>
* [[Ingrid Mattson]] - [[Canadian]] scholar and current president of the [[Islamic Society of North America]] (2006) converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16242486/site/newsweek/ MSBC] Article's title says "Raised Catholic, this Muslim professor is bringing the moderate viewpoint to the world."]</ref>
* [[Isabelle Eberhardt]] - from [[Lutheran]] Christianity, 19th century explorer & writer<ref>[http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/e/eberhardt.shtml Isabelle Eberhardt: Explorer]</ref>
* [[Ivan Aguéli]] (Johan Agelii) - famous Swedish painter.<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. [[Brill]] Academic Publishers. pg.28</ref><ref>[http://www.sala.se/turism/aguelimuseet/e-ivan.html Aguéli Museum] states "He changed his name to Ivan Aguéli. Later he converted to Islam."</ref>
* [[Iyasu V of Ethiopia|Iyasu V]] - Ethiopian emperor.<ref>Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia (London: James Currey, 1991), p. 121.</ref>
 
====J====
 
* [[C. Jack Ellis]] - Mayor of [[Macon, Georgia]]<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/02/macon.mayor.ap/index.html CNN: Macon, Georgia, mayor converts to Islam]</ref>
* [[Jacques-Francois Menou]] - French general under Napoleon I of France.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.isnet.org/off/Islam/New/napoleon.html |title=The history of new Muslims |accessdate=2007-03-17 |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |work= |publisher=Media ISNET |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>
* [[James Yee]] - previously [[Lutheran]]<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-05-16-yee-cover_x.htm The Ordeal of Chaplain Lee]</ref> and former U.S. Army Muslim chaplain.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/09/20/chaplain.arrest/ CNN.com - U.S. Army Muslim chaplain arrested - Sep. 22, 2003<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jean de Béthencourt]] - [[France|French]] [[explorer]] who led an expedition to the [[Canary Islands]].<ref>French Armies of the Hundred Years War, By David Nicolle, Angus McBride, pg. 40</ref>
* [[Jerald F. Dirks]], former ordained Deacon in United Methodist Church, Harvard Divinity School graduate and author of several book on Islam and Christianity.
* [[Jermaine Jackson]] (Muhammad Abdul Aziz) - former member of [[The Jackson 5]].<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0413659/bio Jermaine Jackson (I) - Biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jerôme Courtailler]] - one of two French brothers convicted by French authorities in 2004 for abetting terrorists<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=105681 Al Qaeda exploits 'blue-eyed' Muslim converts<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.liberation.fr/page.
php?Article=217105]</ref><ref>[http://www.norwalkadvocate.com/news/nationworld/sns-worldtrade-embassyplot-lat,0,3646484.story?page=3&coll=sns-newsnation-headlines Embassy plot offers insight into terrorist recruitment, training - The Advocate<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jimmy Cliff]] - Jamaican reggae musician.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:hifuxqq5ldfe~T1 allmusic ((( Jimmy Cliff > Biography )))<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.jimmycliff.com/v-css/bio/?part=1 Jimmy Cliff Official Website<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Joe Tex]] - soul singer and recording artist.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E7DB1E39F937A2575BC0A964948260 Joe Tex, 47, Recording Artist And Soul Singer for 30 Years - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Johann Ludwig Burckhardt]] was a [[Swiss]] [[traveller]] and [[orientalist]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}
* [[St. John Philby]] - [[Arabist]], [[explorer]], [[writer]], and British colonial office [[spy|intelligence operative]]; converted from Anglicanism.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9059645 Philby, H. Saint John]. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2 July 2007.</ref>
* [[John Walker Lindh]] - the "American Taliban" converted From [[Catholicism]]<ref><[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,187564,00.html]</ref><ref>[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0202/05/ip.00.html Transcript of John Ashcroft - February 5, 2002]</ref>
* [[John Whitehead (singer)|John Whitehead]] - an [[United States|American]] [[singer]], [[songwriter]], and [[record producer]].<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/639/000047498/ John Whitehead] at the [[NNDB|Notable Names Database]]</ref>
* [[John Nelson (convert)|John Nelson]] - first recorded [[Englishman]] to become a Muslim.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/uk_1.shtml BBC - Religion & Ethics - Islam in the UK (1500s-present): Before the 20th century<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Joseph T. Thomas|Joseph Thomas]] - Australian convert, acquitted of terrorism charges, placed under a control order under the [[Australian Anti-Terrorism Act 2005]], currently pending retrial.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Thomas-convicted-under-terror-laws/2006/02/26/1140888736669.html Thomas convicted under terror laws], ''[[Four Corners (TV program)|Four Corners]]'', 27 February 2006</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=ABC staff|title=Thomas to face retrial on terrorism charges|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200612/s1815446.htm|work=ABC online|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=20 December 2006|accessdate=2006-12-20}}</ref>
* [[Judar Pasha]] - conqueror of the [[Songhai Empire]].<ref>Davidson, Basil. Africa in History. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.</ref>
 
====K====
 
* [[Kamala Surayya]] (Kamala Das) - Indian writer who wrote in English and Malayalam.
* [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]] (Lew Alcindor) - retired basketball player & the NBA's all-time leading scorer<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E5DB163BF93AA15752C0A962948260 NY Times Archived Short Book Review of ''Giant Steps'' by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Peter Knobler.]</ref>
* [[Keith Ellison (politician)|Keith Ellison]] - [[United States|American]], Representative from [[Minnesota's 5th congressional district]], first [[Muslim]] to be elected to the [[United States Congress]], converted From [[Catholicism]]<ref name="KE">[http://www.keithellison.org/StribOpEd.htm Keith Ellison for U.S. Congress<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Kevin Barrett]] - university lecturer and member of [[Scholars for 9/11 Truth]].<ref>[http://www.mujca.com/myth_of_911.htm Barrett's personal website]</ref>
* [[Khalid Yasin]] - Executive Director of the Islamic Teaching Institute, and a [[Shaykh]] currently residing in Australia.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s943004.htm Transcript of Sheikh Khalid Yasin-07/09/2003: Sunday Nights With John Cleary<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Knud Holmboe]] - Danish journalist and explorer converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>http://www.knud-holmboe.com/books/knud_biography.pdf</ref>
* [[Köse Mihal]] - a [[Byzantine]] renegade, he accompanied [[Osman al-Ghazi]] in his ascent to power and converted to Islam.<ref>The Last Great Muslim Empires, By H. J. Kissling, Bertold Spuler, F. R. C. Bagley, pg.3</ref><ref>American studies in altaic linguistics, By Denis Sinor, pg.5</ref>
* [[Kumba Ialá]] - a [[Guinea-Bissau]] [[politician]] who converted in 2008.
 
====L====
 
* [[Dolores "LaLa" Brooks]] - American musician.<ref>[http://www.nico70ies.com/sakinah.html]</ref>
* [[Loon (rapper)|Loon]] - American hip hop and rap artist <ref>[http://www.mpacuk.org/content/view/5861/102/ Rapper star Loon converts to Islam] MPACUK (2009-07-15). Retrieved on 2009-08-09.</ref>
* [[Lee Hughes]] - professional [[association football]] player, currently playing for [[Notts County F.C.]] <ref> http://archive.thisisworcestershire.co.uk/2005/5/7/14091.html</ref>
 
====M====
 
* [[Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf]] (Chris Jackson) - retired basketball player<ref>"[http://law.wustl.edu/WULQ/76-1/761-23.html MAHMOUD ABDUL-RAUF'S SUSPENSION FOR REFUSING TO STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM: A "FREE THROW" FOR THE NBA AND DENVER NUGGETS, OR A "SLAM DUNK" VIOLATION OF ABDUL-RAUF'S TITLE VII RIGHTS?]" Washington University Law Quarterly.</ref>
* [[Malcolm X]] - [[United States|American]], from [[Christianity]] to [[Nation of Islam]] to Sunni [[Islam]], [[African-American]] [[civil rights]] leader.<ref>[http://www.cmgworldwide.com/historic/malcolm/about/bio.htm Official website of Malcom X: Biography]</ref>
* [[Marmaduke Pickthall]] - famous translator of the [[Quran]].<ref>[http://library.dartmouth.edu/guides/sub.php?page_id=721&subject_id=201&section_id=2 Islamic Studies : A Research Guide]</ref>
* [[Mario Scialoja]] - Italian ambassador and President of the World Muslim League.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4745863.stm BBC NEWS Europe | Italy prepares for new terrorism<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Matthew Saad Muhammad]] (formerly Matthew Franklin) - former boxer, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.matthewsaadmuhammed.com/ Matthew Saad Muhammad]</ref>
* [[Matthew Yusuf Smith]], also known as Yusuf and Indigo Jo, author of the award winning blog<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brasscrescent.org|title=Winner of the Best European Blog|work=[[Brass Crescent Awards]]|date=2008 & 2009}}</ref> [http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/ Indigo Jo Blogs], where he muses about life and courts controversy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3409686/part_2/beware-the-new-axis-of-evangelicals-and-islamists.thtml|title=Beware The New Axis of Evangelicals and Islamists|work=The Spectator|date=4 March 2009}}</ref>
* [[Michael Muhammad Knight]] - American novelist, writer, and journalist.<ref>[http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_whitaker/2007/03/sex_drugs_and_prayer.html Comment is free Punk Muslims]</ref>
* [[Mike Tyson]] - Is an American boxer to Sunni
* [[Mihnea Turcitul]] - was a [[List of Wallachian rulers|Prince]] ([[Voivode]]) of [[Walachia]]. Converted from Eastern Orthodox Christianity.<ref>Ştefan Ştefănescu, ''Istoria medie a României'', [[Bukares]], Vol. I, 1991, p.164</ref>
* [[Mohammad Yousuf]] - [[Pakistan]]i cricketer. Known for holding the world record for the most Test runs in a single calendar year, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/43650.html Mohammed Yousuf]</ref>
* [[Mohammed Knut Bernström]] - Swedish ambassador to Venezuela (1963–1969), Spain (1973–1976) and Morocco (1976–1983)<ref>Roald, Anne Sofie (2004). ''New Muslims in the European Context: The Experience of Scandinavian Converts ''. [[Brill]] Academic Publishers. pg.130</ref>
* [[Mohammed Zakariya]] - an American master of [[Arabic calligraphy]], best known for his work on the popular [[Eid ul-Fitr|Eid]] U.S. [[postage stamp]].<ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20040709-000002.html Psychology Today: The Soul Searcher<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[M. A. R. Barker|Muhammad Abd-al-Rahman Barker]] (Philip Barker) - professor of Urdu, former chair of the [[University of Minnesota]]'s Department of South Asian studies and creator of the [[Tékumel]] fantasy world.<ref>[[Gary Fine]], ''Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games As Social Worlds'', University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1983. Reprinted in 2002.</ref>
* [[Muhammad Ali]] (formerly Cassius Clay), from [[Baptist]]<ref>On the Other Side of Oddville
By Dwight A. Moody, Ike Moody, pg. 122</ref><ref>Muhammad Ali & Company
By Thomas Hauser, pg. 18</ref> to [[The Nation of Islam]] to [[Sunni]] Islam.<ref>[http://www.beliefnet.com/story/160/story_16045_1.html Muhammad Ali has embraced Sufi Islam and is on a new spiritual quest - Beliefnet.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> famous boxer.
* [[Muhammed al-Ahari]] born January 6, 1965 as Ray Allen Rudder is an American essayist, scholar and writer on the topics of American Islam, Black Nationalist groups, heterodox Islamic groups and modern occultism
* [[Murad Wilfred Hofmann]] - [[NATO]] official, converted From [[Catholicism]]<ref>[‘’’ Journey to Islam - Diary of a German Diplomat’’’ by Murad Hoffman]</ref>
 
====N====
* [[Nicolas Anelka]] - French football player<ref>[http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/article-11255446-details/Muslim+Anelka+to+quit+England/article.do;jsessionid=hgtrFr9MbfKXQNRCxHGF8dRW1knmWxynwQTQq2Nq7bhMLVc4VfCm!-825067526!-1407319224!7001!-1 Muslim Anelka to quit England Sport | This is London<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Nuh Ha Mim Keller]] - from Catholicism to [[agnosticism]] to Sunni Islam, Islamic scholar.<ref>Keller, Nu Ha Mim. ''[http://www.islamfortoday.com/keller04.htm Becoming Muslim]''.</ref>
 
====O====
 
* [[Olu Dara]] (born Charles Jones III in Natchez, Mississippi[1] on 12 January 1941) is an American cornetist, guitarist and singer
* [[Omar Bongo]] - Gabonese, President of [[Gabon]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7115420.stm "Bongo's 40 years of ruling Gabon"] BBC News, 28 November 2007. Accessed on 8 February 2008.</ref>
* [[Omar Pasha]] - Ottoman general. Converted from Serbian Orthodoxy.<ref>Ethnicity, Cultural Discontinuity and Power Brokers in Northern Iraq: The Case of the Shabak .Amal Vinogradov. American Ethnologist, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 207–218</ref>
 
====P====
 
* [[Peter Murphy (musician)|Peter Murphy]] - vocalist of the goth/rock group [[Bauhaus]], converted from [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/875/000109548/ Peter Murphy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Pierre Vogel]] - German Islamic preacher and former professional Boxer.
* [[Poncke Princen]] - [[Netherlands|Dutch]] soldier, later human rights activist, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref> [http://www.etan.org/et2002a/march/01-9/05ponke.htm Ponke, a human rights hero, is dead]</ref>
* [[Preacher Moss]] - Former [[Baptist]],<ref>[http://www.icfresno.org/Media/Comedy.html Christian and Muslim comics show believers that faith sometimes is best shared through laughter - especially when it's at themselves]</ref> American comedian and comedy writer.<ref>[http://www.allahmademefunny.com/press/iol05april2005.html “Allah Made Me Funny!” - A Popular Muslim-American Comedy]. IslamOnline.net</ref>
 
====Q====
[[Queen Noor]] (Lisa Halaby), widow of Jordan's King Huessin.
 
====R====
 
* [[Radu cel Frumos]] - was the younger brother of [[Vlad III Dracula|Vlad Ţepeş]] (Dracula) and prince of the principality of Wallachia, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>’’A Cold’’ By Marin Sorescu, Published 1978, p.16</ref>
* [[René Guénon]] - French Author in the field of metaphysics, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.sophiajournal.com/Vol1Num1/Article02.html]</ref><ref>Guenonian Esoterism and Christian Mystery, By Jean Borella, G. John Champoux, back cover.</ref>
* [[Richard Colvin Reid]] - shoe bomber (convicted terrorist) <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,203478,00.html The Shoe Bomber's World - TIME<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Richard Thompson (musician)|Richard Thompson]] - [[United Kingdom|British]] [[musician]], best known for his [[guitar]] playing and songwriting.<ref>Humphries, Patrick, ''Richard Thompson - The Biography'', Schirmer, 1997. ISBN 0-02-864752-1</ref>
* [[Robert D. Crane]] is the former adviser to the late President [[Richard Nixon]], and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council.<ref> [http://www.islamonline.net/livedialogue/english/Guestcv.asp?hGuestID=gTlc0C Guest CV - Dr. Robert (Farooq) D. Crane], ''[[Islam Online]]''</ref>
* [[Robin Padilla]] - Filipino actor.<ref>[http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=69182 Robin Padilla opens school for Muslim kids]</ref>
* [[Roger Garaudy]] - French philosopher, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n4p31_Okeefe.html Origin and Enduring Impact of the 'Garaudy Affair'<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ronald Bell]] or Khalis Bayyan (born 1 November 1951, Youngstown, Ohio) is an American singer, composer and saxophonist
* [[Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley]] - British soldier and [[peerage|peer]].<ref>History of the London Central Mosque and the Islamic Cultural Centre 1910–1980, A. L. Tibawi, Die Welt des Islams, New Ser., Bd. 21, Nr. 1/4 (1981), pp. 193–208</ref>
* [[Rudolf Carl von Slatin]] - Anglo-[[Austria]]n soldier and administrator in the [[Sudan]]. Later reverted to Catholicism.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068158 Slatin, Rudolf Karl, Baron von]. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 3 July 2007.</ref>
* [[Rustie Lee]] - British television chef and celebrity.<ref>[http://www.rustie-lee.com Vote Rustie Lee<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood]] - British author, converted from [[Protestantism]].<ref>[http://www.ruqaiyyah.karoo.net/index.htm Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood Dawah Theology Islam<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ryan G. Anderson]] - former Lutheran, convicted of charges of espionage for [[Al Qaeda]]<ref>[http://www.niqabiparalegal.com/archives/2004/09/ryan_anderson_c_1.php The Niqabi Paralegal: Ryan Anderson convicted<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/12/terror/main599982.shtml Soldier Guilty Of Al Qaeda Aid, Spc Anderson Convicted Of Trying To Give Terrorists Info - CBS News<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ryan Harris (American football)|Ryan Harris]]- football player for the Denver Broncos <ref>[http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/Sports/Detail?contentId=3454826&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=6.1.1 MyFox Colorado Being Muslim in The Big Leagues<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[RZA]] - Is an American rapper to Nation of Gods and Earths
 
====S====
* [[Salman the Persian]] A convert from Christianity<ref>Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain By Kathryn Spellman, pg. 145</ref> who was previously Zoroastrian. In search for truth, he traveled to Syria to follow Christianity. Upon the death of his teachers, he was directed to head to Arabia, where he was told the final prophet will rise. He later converted to Islam and became one of Muhammad's first companions. Is said to have been called by the Prophet as one of the [[Ahlul Bayt]] though there was no genealogical relationship.
* [[Sana al-Sayegh]], dean of the Science and Technology Faculty at Palestine International University, converted to Islam in August 2007. [[Fatah]] has accused its political rival [[Hamas]] of forcing the professor to convert from Christianity, a charge Hamas denies.<ref>[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1186066387589 Khaled Abou Toameh. "Hamas forced professor to convert."] ''[[Jerusalem Post]]''. 5 August 2007.</ref>
* [[Sarah Joseph]] - commentator on women's issues and founder of [[emel magazine]], converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>''[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article576288.ece Putting a good glossy on the Muslim lifestyle]''. [[Times (magazine)|Times]]</ref>
* [[Scarface (rapper)|Brad Terrence Jordan ("Scarface")]] - American [[rapper]]<ref>[http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/02/post_911_islam.php American Renaissance News: Post 9/11, Islam Flourishes Among Blacks<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Sheikh Sharifuddin Khalifa]], Born to a catholic family, a young Sheikh who at the Age of 5, converted 1000 people to Islam and met the leader of Libya<ref name="Scotland on Sunday">
[http://www.geocities.com/naheedahmad_khi/Graphics/shariff_Idd.jpg Boy 5 knows 5 languages], ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'', April 8, 1999</ref><ref name=BwTorrent>[http://www.bwtorrents.com/showpost.php?p=281344&postcount=1 Boy 5 converts 1000, to Islam]</ref><ref name=Youtube>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1OEEtHB0NI&feature=related Boy 5 converts 1000, to Islam Full Version], ''[[Youtube]]</ref>
* [[Sheila Musaji]] - founder of [[The American Muslim]] magazine.<ref>[http://www.dicd.gov.ae/vEnglish/detailnewspage.jsp?articleID=5359&pageFlag=0&newsType=4 Three killed while performing ritual]</ref>
* [[Silma Ihram]] - formerly a born again [[Baptist]] who is an [[Australian]] pioneer of Muslim education in [[Western world|the West]], founder and former school [[Principal (school)|Principal]] of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial [[tolerance]], and [[Author]].<ref name="SilmaIhramAust">{{cite web|url = http://www.blogger.com/profile/14309477462606091182|title = About me |accessdate = 2007-09-26|year = 2007|work = Silma |publisher = Push-Button Publishing}}</ref>
* [[Siraj Wahaj]] - Former Baptist.<ref>Islam in America, By Jane I. Smith, pg. 196</ref> African-American Imam, noted for his efforts to eliminate [[Brooklyn]]'s drug problems.<ref>Kohn, Rachael. [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s129522.htm The Black imam of Brooklyn]</ref>
* [[Snoop Dogg]] - Rapper, Joined Nation Of Islam.<ref>[news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7918383.stm]</ref>
* [[Suhaib Webb]] - American Islamic activist and speaker.<ref>[http://www.sunnipath.com/about/shaykhsuhaib.aspx]</ref>
* [[Suleiman Pasha]] - [[France|French]]-born [[Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors|Egyptian]] commander.<ref>[http://soliman-pacha.ifrance.com/biograph.htm Biographie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====T====
* [[T. B. Irving]] - An American [[scholar]], [[author]] and [[translator]]
* [[Tariq Abdul-Wahad]] (Olivier Saint-Jean) - originally from France, former basketball player for the Mavericks and Kings<ref>[http://www.nba.com/playerfile/tariq_abdul-wahad/bio.html NBA.com: Tariq Abdul-Wahad Bio<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Tawana Brawley]] (changed her name to Maryam Muhammad) - African American woman noted for claiming to have been raped by several white men, a claim determined to be a fabrication by a grand jury. Later in life she converted to Islam.<ref>[http://www.nycourts.gov/press/old_keep/brawley.htm Pagones v. Maddox et al.<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.courttv.com/archive/legaldocs/newsmakers/tawana/] [http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200603%5CCOM20060307a.html]</ref>
* [[Tekuder]] - [[Mongol]] leader of the [[Ilkhanate|Ilkhan empire]] who was formerly a [[Nestorian Christian]].<ref>A history of the crusades, By Steven Runciman, pg. 397</ref>
* [[Thomas J. Abercrombie]] - photographer<ref>[http://www.bayweekly.com/year98/lead6_7.html Interview at Bayweekly] "Q: Am I right that you became a Moslem in the mid-1960s? Answer: I think it was '65 or '66."</ref>
* [[Timothy Winter]] - prominent British Islamic thinker and scholar, and a [[lecturer]] in [[Islamic studies]] in the Faculty of Divinity at the [[University of Cambridge]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/stories/s1237986.htm Feature Interview: Tim Winter (aka Abdul Hakim Murad) :: Sunday Nights<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Top Topham]] - rock guitarist from England.<ref>”Top Brother”, Emel: The Muslim Lifestyle Magazine, January/February 2005, Issue 9</ref>
* [[Torquato Cardilli]] - Italian ambassador, converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[Rome's Envoy to Saudi Arabia Converts to Islam by Luke Baker, CNN, 26 November 2001]</ref>
 
* [[T-pain]] - American R'N'B artist
 
====U====
====V====
 
* [[Vincenzo Luvineri]] - [[United States|American]] rapper and the lyricist behind the [[Philadelphia]] underground hip-hop group [[Jedi Mind Tricks]], converted From [[Catholicism]].<ref>[http://www.philaflava.com/vinnie_paz.htm Vinnie Paz<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====W====
 
* [[Wadih el-Hage]] born to a Maronite Christian family in Sidon, Lebanon, a former al-Qaeda member.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}
* [[William Abdullah Quilliam]] - 19th century British poet, ambassador and journalist.<ref>[http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/people/law/whqllm.htm William Henry ('Sheikh Abdullah') Quilliam, 1856-]</ref>
* [[Willie Brigitte]] - [[France|French]] convert to [[Islam]] who associated with [[al-Qaeda]] in [[Pakistan]] and was possibly involved in a plot to conduct a terrorist operation in [[Australia]].<ref name=TRIAL>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1841824.htm Brigitte terrorism trial nears] ABC News</ref>
 
====X====
====Y====
 
* [[Yahiya Emerick]] - American Muslim scholar, President of the Islamic Foundation of North America, converted from [[Protestantism]].<ref>[http://www.islamfortoday.com/emerick8.htm How Did You Accept Islam? by Yahiya Emerick<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Yasin Abu Bakr]] (Lennox Philip) - of [[Trinidad and Tobago]], under trial for an attempted coup as of 9 March 2006<ref>[http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369924 Jamaat al-Muslimeen on Trial in Trinidad and Tobago<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Yusuf Estes]] - Former preacher and federal prison chaplain, converted from [[Protestantism]].<ref name="uconn"/>
* [[Yvonne Ridley]] - British journalist, from Anglicanism. She converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban.<ref> [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3673730.stm "Yvonne Ridley: From captive to convert"], By Hannah Bayman, ''BBC News'' (online), 21 September 2004</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/northeast/series4/yvonne_ridley_iraq.shtml BBC Inside Out - Yvonne Ridley<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
====Z====
 
* [[Zaid Shakir]] - [[United States|American]] [[Muslim]] convert former [[Baptist]], speaker, intellectual, author, and resident scholar of [[Zaytuna Institute]] in the [[United States]].<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/us/18imams.html?pagewanted=4&ei=5088&en=0efbc4624383a46b&ex=1308283200 U.S. Muslim Clerics Seek a Modern Middle Ground - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.newislamicdirections.com/nid/about/about_imam_zaid_shakir/ New Islamic Directions<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Zağanos Pasha]] - one of the prominent [[military commander]]s of [[Mehmet II]] (Mehmet the Conqueror) and a ''lala'', at once an advisor, [[mentor]], [[tutor]], [[councillor]], [[wiktionary:protector|protector]], for the [[sultan]].<ref> The Genoese in Galata: 1453–1682, Louis Mitler, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 10, No. (Feb., 1979), pp. 71–91.</ref>
 
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===From [[Judaism]]===
* [[Abdullah ibn Salam]] - 7th century [[sahaba|sahabi]] said to have been a [[rabbi]] of aristocratic stock.<ref>E12, I. 52 (Joseph Horovitz, ''Muhammeds Himmelfahrt'', Der Islam 9 (1919); [[Ibn Hajar Asqalni]], ''[[Finding the Truth in Judging the Companinons|Isaba fi Tamyiizi al-Sahaba]]'', II. 312-3</ref>
* [[Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi]] - influential [[physicist]], [[philosopher]], and [[scientist]] who wrote a critique of [[Aristotelianism|Aristotelian philosophy]] and [[Aristotelian physics]].<ref>Routledge History of Philosophy
By Stuart Shanker, John Marenbon, George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, pg. 76</ref>
* [[Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al]] was an [[Arab]] [[Islamic mathematician|Muslim mathematician]] and [[Islamic astronomy|astronomer]] of [[Arab Jews|Jewish descent]].<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=174&letter=A Jewish Encyclopedia]</ref> His father was a [[Jew]]ish [[Rabbi]] from [[Morocco]], but al-Samawʾal converted to [[Islam]].<ref>Medieval Cultures in Contact, By Richard Gyug, pg. 123</ref>
* [[Jacob Querido]] - 17th century successor of the [[List of messiah claimants|self-proclaimed]] [[Jew]]ish [[Messiah]] [[Sabbatai Zevi]].<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=6&letter=Q JewishEncyclopedia.com - QUERIDO, JACOB<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Leila Mourad]] - [[Egypt]]ian [[singer]] and [[actress]] who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE7D71339F930A15752C1A963958260 Leila Mourad, Egyptian Film Actress, 77 - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Muhammad Asad]] (Leopold Weiss) - Viennese [[journalist]] who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s. Later, after WWII, he became Pakistani ambassador to the [[United Nations]]<ref>[http://www.thetruecall.com/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=194 Biography of Muhammad Asad]</ref>. Also translated the Qur'an into English and wrote several books on Islam. His son [[Talal Asad]] is an anthropologist at the City University of New York
* [[Rashid al-Din]] - 13th century [[Persian Empire|Persian]] physician<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062730/Rashid-ad-Din Encyclopedia Britannica, "Rashid ad-Din", 2007]</ref>
* [[Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey]] (Yale Singer) - a pioneer in the development of [[Islam in the United States|Islamic culture in the United States]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sma-alumni.org/kg0706b.pdf |title=TAPS |accessdate=2007-02-06 |year=2006 |month=July |work=The Kablegram |publisher=Staunton Military Academy Foundation|format=PDF}}</ref>
* [[Yaqub ibn Killis]] - 10th century Egyptian [[vizier]] under the [[Fatimids]].<ref>In the Court of Ya'qub Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah , Mark R. Cohen, Sasson Somekh ‘’The Jewish Quarterly Review’’, New Ser., Vol. 80, No. 3/4 (Jan. - Apr., 1990), pp. 283–314</ref>
 
==From [[Dharmic religions]]==
===From [[Buddhism]]===
* The [[Barmakids|Barmakid family]] - originally the guardians of the great Buddhist shrine near [[Balkh]], upon conversion they became "the greatest family" in the early [[Abbasid caliphate]].<ref>{{cite book
|author = [[Hugh N. Kennedy|Kennedy, Hugh]]
|title = The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
|publisher = Longman
|year = 2004
|pages = 137, 143
}}</ref>
* [[Mahmud Ghazan]] - seventh ruler of the [[Ilkhanate]].<ref>[http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9365540/Mahmud-Ghazan Mahmud Ghazan]. Encyclopædia Britannica. 2007. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. 2 July 2007.</ref>
* [[Muhammad Khodabandeh (Oljeitu)|Muhammad Khodabandeh]] - eighth [[Ilkhanate|Ilkhaid dynasty]] ruler in [[Iran]] from 1304 to 1316.<ref> Limbert, J. W. (2004). Shiraz in the age of Hafez: the glory of a medieval Persian city. Seattle: University of Washington Press. p.87</ref>
* [[Mubarak Shah]] - head of the ''ulus'' of the [[Chagatai Khanate]] (1252–1260, March-September 1266).<ref>A Sketch of the History of Hindustan from the First Muslim Conquest to the Fall of the Mughol Empire by H. G. Keene</ref>
* [[Tarmashirin]] - Khan of the [[Chagatai Khanate]] following [[Duwa Temur|Duwa Timur]].<ref>[http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-3174062_ITM The Chaghadaids and Islam: the conversion of Tarmashirin Khan (1331-34). - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Hussein Ye]] - An [[Islamic]] scholar of [[Chinese people|Chinese]] descent whose lectures are frequently aired on [[Peace TV]].<ref>[http://www.peacetv.in/sp-hussain_ye.php Peace Tv<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
 
===From [[Hinduism]]===
* [[Parameswara (sultan)|Parameswara]] - Malay prince of [[Palembang]] [[Hindu]] descent from [[Srivijaya]] that founded the [[Sultanate of Malacca]] around 1402.<ref>The Encyclopedia of Malaysia: Languages & Literature, edited by Prof. Dato' Dr Asmah Haji Omar (2004) ISBN 981-3018-52-6</ref>
* [[Kishore Kumar]] - Famous Indian singer who converted when he married [[Madhubala]].<ref>[http://www.webindia123.com/movie/legends/madhubala/madhoo.htm Madhubala profile movie]</ref><ref>[http://www.hindilyrics.net/profiles/kishore-kumar.html Kishore Kumar]</ref>
* [[Harilal Gandhi]] - Oldest son of Mohandas K. Gandhi, later reverted back to Hinduism.
* [[Sumita Devi]] - Bengali actress and filmmaker.<ref>[http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/S_0662.htm BANGLAPEDIA: Sumita Devi<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Vilayil Fazila]] - popular [[Mappila songs]] singer from [[Kerala]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}
* [[Murshid Quli Khan]] - the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] governor of [[Bengal]].<ref>Concise Encyclopaedia Of World History, By Carlos Ramirez-Faria, pg. 528</ref>
* [[Malik Kafur]] - Indian military general.<ref>The history of India, By John McLeod, pg.36</ref>
* [[Abdul Wahid Pedersen]] - [[Denmark|Danish]] cleric.<ref>[http://www.islamonline.net/english/journey/2006/03/jour04.shtml Islam Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Cheraman Perumal (Islamic convert)|Cheraman Perumal]] - The first Indian king to accept Islam<ref>The Judgment Against Imperialism, Fascism and Racism Against Caliphate and Islam, By Khondakar Golam Mowla, pg. 183</ref>
* [[Sahaj Ram Sapru]] - the grandfather of the British-Indian Muslim Philosopher, Sir Dr. [[Muhammad Iqbal]], who was an official in [[Kashmir]] during the administration of the Afghan Governor [[Azim Khan]].<ref>{{Harvard reference | Surname1 = Parmu | Given1 = R.K | Year = 1969 | Title = A history of Muslim rule in Kashmir, 1320–1819 | Publisher= People's Pub. House | ISBN = ASIN: B0006C25AK}}</ref>
* [[Kamala Das|Kamala Suraiyya]] ''(formerly Kamala Das)'' - Anglo-Malayalam writer<ref>[http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/16varsha.htm Rediff On The NeT: Varsha Bhosle on Kamala Das's conversion to Islam<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Sharmila Tagore]] (Begum Ayesha Sultana) - Bollywood film actress, she converted to islam upon marriage.<ref>A Western Journalist on India, By Francois Gautier, pg. 131</ref>
* [[Kabir Suman]]- Modern [[Bengali people|Bengali]] singer & songwriter officially converted to [[Islam]] from [[Hinduism]] in 2000.<ref>[http://www.kabirsuman.com/home_bio.htm]</ref>
* [[Tansen]] - Notable musician and poet.<ref>India Divided, By Rajendra Prasad, pg. 63.</ref><ref>A History of Hindi Literature, By F. E. Keay, pg. 36</ref>
* [[A.R. Rahman]] (stands for Allah Rakha Rahman) - Modern [[South Indian]] singer ,songwriter & Oscar winner officially converted to [[Islam]] from [[Hinduism]].<ref>Srinivasan, Gopal (November 2002). "Composer Extraordinaire: The Complete Biography of A.R. Rahman". Retrieved on 15 February 2007</ref>
* [[Steven Vikash Chand]] - Arrested in the [[2006 Toronto terrorism arrests]]<ref>[http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article829340.ece A convert who wanted to spread the faith] The Globe and Mail - June 7, 2006</ref>
 
===From [[Sikhism]]===
* [[Ubaidullah Sindhi]] - religious leader and political activist.<ref>Mawlānā ʻUbayd Allāh Sindhī : ʻālāt-i zandagī, taʻlīmāt awr siyāsī afkār by Muḥammad Sarwar. Publisher: Lahore, 1976</ref>
 
==Other==
===From [[Paganism]]===
{{See also|List of Sahaba}}
* [[Berke]] - grandson of [[Genghis Khan]] and leader of the [[Golden Horde]] who was the first [[Mongol]] ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state.<ref>Devin De Weese, Devin A, ( DeWeese. ''"Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde"'', Penn State Press, 1 Sep 1994, ISBN 0-271-01073-8 pg.3</ref>
* [[David Myatt]] - from [[Paganism]], former [[Neo-Nazi]]-activist<ref>[http://www.davidmyatt.info/convert2.html David Myatt: From Neo-Nazi to Muslim<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Negudar]] - Mongol general and [[noyan]]<ref>The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful, pg. 226</ref>
* [[Nogai Khan]] - Mongol general and great-grandson of [[Genghis Khan]].<ref>Vásáry, p.71</ref>
* [[Samori Ture]] - founder of the [[Wassoulou Empire]] who resisted [[France|French]] rule in [[West Africa]].<ref>Learning to Love Africa, By Monique Maddy, pg. 156</ref><ref>Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914, By Bruce Vandervort, pg. 128</ref>
* [[Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan]] - 9th century [[Uyghur people|Uyghur]] ruler who was one of the first [[Turkic peoples|Turks]] to convert to Islam.<ref>Asian Mythologies, By Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger, Gerald Honigsblum, pg. 337</ref>
* [[Tuda Mengu]] - Mongol leader of the [[Golden Horde]]<ref>Medieval Russia, 980-1584: 980-1584, By Janet Martin, by 171</ref>
[[Image:Almamy Samory Touré.jpg|thumb|100|right|West African leader [[Samori Ture]] who fought European colonialism]]
* [[Tughlugh Timur]] - the Khan of [[Moghulistan]].<ref>Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East
By Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh, pg. 30</ref>
 
===From [[Zoroastrianism]]===
* [[Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa]] - author and translator of ''[[Panchatantra|Kalīla wa Dimna]]'' from [[Middle Persian]].<ref>The Fall of the Idigo Jackal, By McComas Taylor, pg. 3</ref>
* [[Naubakht]] - [[Zoroastrian Middle Persian|Pahlavi]] translator of the [[Abassid]] court.<ref>Islam's Contribution to Science, By Husain Muzzafar, S. Muzaffar Husain, pg. 31</ref>
* [[Fadl ibn Sahl]] - Persian [[vizier]] of the Abassid era.<ref>Iran. - By Yahya Armajani, pg. 67</ref>
* [[Rattanbai Petit]] - second wife of [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], the founder of [[Pakistan]]
* [[Saman Khuda]] - founder of the [[Samanid]] dynasty, one of the first native [[Persian people|Persian]] dynasties in the [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]] after the collapse of the [[Sassanids]].<ref>Encyclopedic Survey of Islamic Culture. By Mohamed Taher, pg. 84</ref>
 
===From [[Atheism]]===
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* [[A. R. Rahman]] ''(Initially raised Hindu, but was atheist as a teenager until conversion to Islam)'' - famous Indian music composer<ref>[http://members.tripod.com/gopalhome/arrbio.html The Complete Biography of A.R.Rahman - The A.R.Rahman Page<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Zhang Chengzhi]] - contemporary [[Hui people|Hui]] [[China|Chinese]] author; raised as an atheist.<ref>* {{cite conference|title=Social anomie and political discourse in contemporary China|last=Fisac|first=Taciana| booktitle=China Today: Economic Reforms, Social Cohesion, and Collective Identities|editors=Fernández-Stembridge, Leila|location=United Kingdom|publisher=Routledge|id=ISBN 0415312671|year=2003|pages=164}}</ref>
* [[Charles le Gai Eaton]] - British diplomat and writer.<ref>[http://www.radicalmiddleway.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=26&Itemid=43 The Radical Middle Way - Hasan Le Gai Eaton<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Yusuf Islam]] ''([[Cat Stevens]]'') - British musician and singer (had a nominally Christian upbringing, but never was a believer)<ref>[http://www.majicat.com/yusufislam/dailymail1998.htm Daily Times article reposted at his site]</ref>
* [[Martin Lings]] - a widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/obituaries/29Lings.html?ex=1183521600&en=60d8e19089ae58a7&ei=5070 Martin Lings, a Sufi Writer on Islamic Ideas, Dies at 96 - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Mos Def]] - [[United States|American]] [[rapper]] and actor.<ref>[http://www.beliefnet.com/story/75/story_7526_1.html You're Gonna Serve Somebody]</ref>
* [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] - The incumbent [[President of Kazakhstan]]. Formerly held atheistic views during the Soviet era.<ref>Ideology and National Identity in Post-Communist Foreign Policies By Rick Fawn, pg. 147</ref>
 
===Undetermined former religion===
* [[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]].<ref>Sufi Review (Pir Publications, Spring 1997), p.5-8</ref>
* [[Thomas J. Abercrombie]] -Famous photographer and writer for National Geographic Magazine http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040602187.html
* [[Edoardo Agnelli]] - eldest son of [[Gianni Agnelli]], the industrialist patriarch of [[Fiat]].
* [[Abd al Malik (rapper)|Abd al Malik]] - birth name Régis Fayette-Mikano - French rapper of Congolese origins.<ref>[http://www.lepetitjournal.com/content/view/16978/1565/ lepetitjournal.com - PORTRAIT – De Régis Fayette-Mikano à Abd Al Malik<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]] - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, and although widely disputed, a convicted murderer.<ref>[http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/Mumia_AbuJamal.html The religion of Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted murderer]</ref><ref>[http://courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070517/NEWS01/70517005/1006 Mumia Abu-Jamal case in court today]</ref>
* [[B.G. Knocc Out]] - American west coast rapper.<ref>[http://hiphop.discogs.com/artist/B.G.+Knocc+Out+&+Dresta B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Hasan Akbar]] (born Mark Fidel Kools) - American sentenced to [[death penalty|death]] for the [[murder]] of two fellow soldiers during the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq]].<ref>The Associated Press. (2003). [http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/24/101.attack.ap/ "Motive a mystery in grenade attack"] ''CNN.com''. Retrieved 25 November 2006.</ref>
* [[Maurice Béjart]] - French choreographer.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DB1231F930A35757C0A966958260 Chronicle], New York Times, 3 April 1990</ref>
* [[Robert "Kool" Bell]] - musician.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/07/01/db0103.xml Charles Smith - Telegraph<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ronald Bell (musician)|Ronald Bell]] - musician.<ref>[ibid]</ref>
* [[Mohammed Knut Bernström]] - Swedish ambassador.<ref>[<u>Archive for the Psychology of Religion</u> By Jacob A Belzen, Nils G Holm, p.51]</ref>
* [[Khaled Edward Blair]] - British [[barrister]], later married [[Princess Badiya bint Al Hassan|Princess Badiya bint El Hassan]] of Jordan.<ref>[http://www.elhassan.org/reg/family/blair.html Mr. Khaled Edward Blair]</ref>
* [[Charles Brooks, Jr.]] - converted while serving a sentence for [[murder]]; first person to be executed by [[lethal injection]] in the [[United States]].<ref>[http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/brookscharlielast.htm Last Statement] from the [[Texas Department of Criminal Justice]]. Retrieved 22 August 2005.</ref>
* [[H. Rap Brown]] - civil rights activisit.<ref>[http://historyisaweapon.org/defcon1/dnd.html Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Titus Burckhardt]] - Swiss writer and scholar.<ref>[http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/197603/the.world.of.islam-its.arts.htm Saudi Aramco World : The World of Islam: Its Arts<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Amir Butler]]- author, engineer and Islamic [[activist]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/opinion/butler.htm FourCorners Opinion: Amir Butler]</ref>
[[Image:IceCube Toronto2006.jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Ice Cube]], famous rapper , actor, screenwriter and director.]]
* [[Kérim Chatty]]- [[Sweden|Swedish]] bodybuilding stuntman who was once suspected of attempted hijacking. The preliminary inquiry was dropped.<ref name=bbc>{{cite news|title=Bodybuilding stuntman who turned to Islam|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2230630.stm|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=2002-09-30|accessdate=2006-12-27}}</ref>
* [[Jill Courtney]] - Australian, girlfriend of convicted killer and drug trafficker [[Hassan Kalache]], arrested on 26 March 2006 for attempted murder of unnamed people.<ref>[http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=92998 Sydney bomb plot link to race riots, murderer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1904857,00.html Sydney bomb plotter charged: World: News: News24<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-hatred20mar20,0,2363078.story?coll=la-home-headlines]{{Dead link|date=March 2008}}</ref>
* [[Robert D. Crane]] - former Presidential advisor and ambassador.<ref>http://www.ajma.org/Bin/Bin.htm</ref>
* [[Ice Cube]] - [[Gangsta rapper]] and actor.<ref>[http://film.guardian.co.uk/Feature_Story/feature_story/0,,140252,00.html Chillin' with Cube | Guardian Unlimited Film<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Bob Denard]] - French mercenary.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5097580.stm BBC NEWS World | Africa | Profile: French mercenary Bob Denard<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jeffrey Mark Deskovic]] - served 15-year wrongful imprisonment sentence.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/nyregion/21dna.html?ex=1180756800&en=398d332e5e3428a2&ei=5070 DNA Evidence Frees a Man Imprisoned for Half His Life - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Isabelle Eberhardt]] - explorer and writer.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_4_45/ai_91040708 Isabelle Eberhardt in brief Literary Review | Find Articles at BNET.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Baron omar Rolf von Ehrenfels]] - Austrian anthropologist and orientalist.<ref>Dr S. M. Abdullah (Khulusi 1963, pp. 234–235).</ref>
* [[Everlast (musician)|Everlast]] - Irish-American rapper and singer-songwriter.<ref>[http://everlastworld.de/biographie/biographieE.htm Everlastworld - Everlast biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Alys Faiz]] - human rights and peace activist;<ref>[http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/13/top16.htm Alys Faiz passes away]</ref> converted at the time of her marriage to Urdu poet [[Faiz Ahmed Faiz]].<ref>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1558 Faiz Ahmed Faiz]</ref>
* [[Jeff Fort]] - former [[Chicago]] gang leader, co-founder of the [[Black P. Stones]] gang, and founder of its [[El Rukn]] faction. He was convicted in 1987 of conspiring with [[Libya]] to perform acts of [[domestic terrorism]].<ref name=AP87>{{cite news|title=Five Draw Long Sentences for Terrorism Scheme|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE5D71F3CF932A05751C1A961948260|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1987-12-31|publisher=[[Associated Press]]|accessdate=2007-12-21}}</ref><ref>Robert W. Dart, ''The Future is Here Today: Street Gang Trends'', 1992</ref>
* [[Akhenaton (rapper)|Philippe Fragione]] - French rapper and producer of French hip hop.<ref>[http://www.rfimusique.com/sitefr/biographie/biographie_9046.asp RFI Musique - Akhénaton<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Christian Ganczarski]]- Head of "[[al Qaeda]] in Europe".<ref>[http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,891855,00.html French Allege Detained German Is Top Al Qaeda Leader]</ref>
* [[Jemima Goldsmith]] daughter of the billionaire Sir James, who was married to [[Imran Khan]]
* [[Philippe Grenier]] - (1865–1944) French doctor, first Muslim MP in France.<ref>[http://www.saphirnews.com/Docteur-Philippe-Grenier_a1740.html Docteur Philippe Grenier<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Gigi Gryce]] - American saxophonist, flutist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.<ref>[http://www.gigigryce.com/ Gigi Gryce Biography<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Walt Hazzard]] - former NBA player.<ref>[http://www.hickoksports.com/biograph/hazzardwalt.shtml#other HickokSports.com - Biography - Walt Hazzard<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[David Hicks]] - convicted Australian terrorist.<ref>Ian Munro and Penny Debelle,[http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/bring-hicks-home/2006/12/02/1164777845596.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap3 Bring Hicks home], ''The Age'', Fairfax, 2 December 2006</ref>
* [[Adam Gadahn]] (born Adam Pearlman) - [[al-Qaeda]] English language spokesman.<ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/specials/terror/gadahn.html]</ref>
* [[Lim Yew Hock]] - Singapore’s second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959.<ref>’’The Man Who Thumped the Reds’’, The Straits Times on 1 Dec 1984.</ref>
* [[Craig Hodges]] - former NBA player.<ref>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010515/ai_n13910333</ref>
* [[Ibrahim Hooper]] (Douglas Hooper) - Islamic activist, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations ([[Council on American-Islamic Relations|CAIR]]).<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week926/perspectives.html PBS.org - Perspecives: American Muslim Issues]</ref>
* [[Abdullah Ibrahim]] - South African Jazz musician.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,614946,00.html The sound of freedom The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Umar Islam]] - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the [[2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name="BBC_converts">[http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1225687,00.html Profiling the Suspects: Converts to Islam]</ref>
* [[Malik ul Salih]] - established the first Muslim state of [[Samudera Pasai]].<ref>The Preaching of Islam, By Thomas Walker Arnold, pg. 297</ref>
* [[Tiara Jacquelina]] - Malaysian actress.<ref>New Sunday Times, Malaysia. "Tiara's true to her roles" (18 September 2005)</ref>
* [[Ahmad Jamal]] - Jazz pianist.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:wifoxqt5ldde~T1 allmusic ((( Ahmad Jamal > Biography )))<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*[[Maryam Jameelah]] - formerly Margret Marcus. Author of many books covering several subjects, including [[Modernism]], [[Sociology]], [[History]], [[Jihad]], [[Theology]] and [[Technology]].<ref>[http://www.jannah.org/sisters/jameelah.html "Why I embraced Islam by Maryum Jameelah"] www.jannah.org</ref>
* [[Jan Janszoon]] - Dutch pirate.<ref>Vrijman, L.C. Kaapvaart en zeeroverij / L.C. Vrijman. - Amsterdam, [1938]</ref>
* [[Larry Johnson (basketball)|Larry Johnson]] - retired American professional basketball player.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E0DA1739F937A15752C0A96F958260&sec=health&pagewanted=print PRO BASKETBALL; A Diet of Discipline - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Gustave-Henri Jossot]] - French caricaturist, illustrator and Orientalist painter.<ref>[http://al.alawi.1934.free.fr/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=50 Les Amis du Cheikh Ahmed al-Alawi - Content<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Vladimir Khodov]] - leader of the [[Beslan school hostage crisis]]- converted in prison.<ref>[http://vypusk.kursk.ru/pic/Beslan.doc]</ref>
* [[Abd al Haqq Kielan]] - Swedish cleric.<ref>[http://www.paraplyprojektet.se/news.php?id=656&categoryID=12 A man’s domain or a woman’s realm? Articles | The Umbrella project<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ghostface Killah]] - member of the [[Wu-Tang Clan]].<ref name=autogenerated2>[http://qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-587/_nr-28/i.html Qantara.de - The Muslim Hip Hop Scene in the USA - Rapping with Allah's Blessing<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Begum Om Habibeh Aga Khan]] - born Yvette Blanche Labrousse, Miss France 1930, wife of [[Aga Khan III]].<ref>[http://boomer-cafe.net/version2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=83 Yvette Labrousse, Begum Om Habibeh Elles et eux dans les années 50<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Yusef Lateef]] - [[United States|American]] [[Jazz]] [[musician]].<ref>[http://www.yuseflateef.com/AboutYusef.html Yusef Lateef - About Yusef<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Johann von Leers]] - advisor to [[Muhammad Naguib]] known for his anti-Semitic polemics.<ref>[[Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890]]'' edited by [[Philip Rees]], (1991, ISBN 0-13-089301-3)</ref><ref>[[The Beast Reawakens]]'' by [[Martin A. Lee]] (1997, ISBN 0-316-51959-6)</ref><ref>[[Behind the Egyptian Sphinx]]: [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser's]] strange bedfellows; prelude to [[World War III]]?'' by [[Irving Sedar]] and [[Harold J. Greenberg]] ([[Philadelphia]], [[Chilton Co.]], 1960)</ref>
* [[Gary Legenhausen]] - American philosopher and writer.<ref>[http://terrypatten.typepad.com/iran/2007/06/in_qom_meeting_.html Integral in Iran: In Qom: Meeting with Conservative Clergy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Brandon Mayfield]] - American attorney-at-law, was erroneously linked to the [[2004 Madrid train bombings]].<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/us/30settle.html?ex=1322542800&en=0450419c94570958&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss U.S. Will Pay $2 Million to Lawyer Wrongly Jailed]</ref>
* [[MC Ren]] - American rapper and hip-hop producer.<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/962/000095677/ MC Ren<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ali Shaheed Muhammad]] - member of [[A Tribe Called Quest]].<ref>[http://www.giantstep.net/artists/553/bio/ GIANT STEP Artist - Ali Shaheed Muhammad<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Idris Muhammad]] - [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[musician]].<ref>[http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/biography/viewentry.php?id=3312 Salaam Knowledge<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[John Allen Muhammad]] - convicted serial killer, known as the ''Beltway Sniper''.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/10/24/muhammad.profile/ CNN.com - Muhammad a Gulf War vet, Islam convert - Jan. 26, 2004<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.courttv.com/trials/sniper/060106_ap.html Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad gets six life terms in Maryland on CourtTV.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Anthony Mundine]] - Australian Boxer.<ref>[http://www.eastsideboxing.com/ade2510.html The Politics of Anthony Mundine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Abdul Alim Musa]] - Muslim activist and director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington, D.C.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060227/ai_n16192685 Mosque works to better the community Oakland Tribune | Find Articles at BNET.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Susanne Osthoff]] - [[Germany|German]] [[archaeologist]] who had worked in [[Iraq]] since 1991 and had been taken captive there for three weeks.<ref>[http://english.aljazeera.net/English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=16808 Al Jazeera English - Archive - Plea To Free German Captive<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[José Padilla (prisoner)|José Padilla]] - the respondent in [[Rumsfeld v. Padilla]] currently on trial as an alleged [[al-Qaida]] operative, converted while in prison for aggravated assault.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,262917,00.html The Case of the Dirty Bomber - TIME<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Christopher Paul]] (aka Paul Kenyatta Laws aka Abdulmalek Kenyatta) - American citizen, alleged member of al-Qaeda.<ref>[http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=e1d5f4d5-1790-4403-ba27-4bf9b58c7aba&k=38654 Ohio man accused of joining al-Qaida, planning bomb plots in Europe]</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6553421,00.html U.S. Man Accused of Plot to Bomb Resorts]</ref>
[[Image:Isabelle Eberhardt.jpg|thumb|[[Swiss]] explorer, [[Isabelle Eberhardt]]]]
* [[Charles John Pelham, 8th Earl of Yarborough|Charles John Pelham]] (Abdul Mateen), 8th [[Earl of Yarborough]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Islamic Britain lures top people|publisher=The Sunday Times|date=2004-02-22|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1026534.ece }}</ref>
* [[Q-Tip (rapper)|Q-Tip]] - [[North America]]n [[rapping|hip-hop emcee]], actor, and [[Hip hop music|hip hop]] [[hip hop production|producer]] who was the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,992761-2,00.html Hip-Hop's Next Wave - TIME<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Dwight Muhammad Qawi]] - former boxing world heavyweight champion.<ref>[http://www.sjmagazine.net/(A(ILAFmrAGbKfoamELNmpmRn49xa0O4togSSYuy26o_L5q3990bY4WSFhUehm_aDSsz0cnqz7jVgQl8wcceyV4BLkCqQolcdUeLfdL_iSQRng1)S(wvpkd245irsj2wml2vv21521))/articles.aspx?aid=110&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 SJ Magazine Articles your South Jersey source<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jack Roche]] - convicted of involvement in an al-Qaeda plot to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3757017.stm Jack Roche: The naive militant]</ref>
* [[Carlos (Ilich Ramírez Sánchez)|Ilich Ramírez Sánchez]] - aka "Carlos the Jackal", convicted murderer and terrorist, currently in prison in France.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3022358.stm BBC NEWS Americas | 'Jackal' book praises Bin Laden<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ibrahim Savant]] - one of the suspects arrested in the UK in connection to the 2006 transatlantic aircraft terrorist plot in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref name="BBC_converts" />
* [[Frithjof Schuon]] - [[metaphysics|metaphysician]], [[poet]], [[Painting|painter]], [[philosopher]] (in the original and Platonic sense of this term), and a leading figure of the perennialist school.<ref>[http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/june02_index.php?l=6 Conversion: Islam, the growing religion<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Stephen Schwartz (journalist)|Stephen Schwartz]] - [[United States of America|American]] [[journalist]], [[columnist]], and author.<ref>[http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/articles/conversion_schwartz.htm conversion article by a Journalist, steven schwartz<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Derrick Shareef]]- charged in a plot to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans 22 December at the [[CherryVale Mall]] in [[Rockford, Illinois]] during the [[Christmas]] rush.<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16110298/ Ill. man arrested for alleged bomb plot - Security - MSNBC.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Sahib Shihab]] - jazz saxophonist and flautist.<ref>[http://www.emusic.com/artist/Sahib-Shihab-MP3-Download/11736427.html Sahib Shihab, MP3 Music Download at eMusic<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Divine Styler]] - American hip-hop musician.<ref>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-30232586_ITM Divine Styler: Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light Colorlines Magazine (March , 2007)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Nahshid Sulaiman]] - [[alternative hip hop]] artist.<ref>[http://www.mp3.com/artist/one-be-lo/summary/ One Be Lo MP3 Downloads - One Be Lo Music Downloads - One Be Lo Music Videos - One Be Lo Pictures - MP3.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Apisai Tora]] - [[Fiji]]an politician.<ref>[http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/193221 Tvnz.co.nz]</ref>
* [[Mike Tyson]] (''Malik Abdul Aziz'') - former heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Converted while in prison after being convicted of rape.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/614507.stm BBC News SPORT | Echoes of Ali in Tyson furore<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n11_v50/ai_17362107 Ebony interview with Mike Tyson - boxer - Interview Ebony | Find Articles at BNET.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Abdul Waheed]] (Don Stewart-Whyte) - accused of participating in the [[2006 transatlantic aircraft plot]].<ref>[http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,432835,00.html]</ref><ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/world/europe/12suspects.html?ex=1313035200&en=861a0571fd02082a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss Shock Reverberates Among Acquaintances of the Young Suspects - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Jason Walters]] - of the [[Netherlands]], member of the [[Hofstad Network]], convicted on charges of terrorism.<ref>[http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/38526281/Pinverbod_voor_terrorist.html Pinverbod voor terrorist], the Dutch foreign minister bans convicted Hofstadgroep terrorists from any financial transactions, by Rien Meijer and Bart Mos, [[De Telegraaf]], 20 April 2006 (Dutch)</ref>
* [[John Ward (pirate)|John Ward]] - (changed name to Yusuf Reis) British corsair and pirate.<ref>[http://www.history.unimelb.edu.au/tajir/pirateresources/documents/ward/wardintro.htm]</ref>
* [[Rakan Ben Williams]] - suspected member of [[Al-Qaeda]] terrorist.<ref>[http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP111206 MEMRI: Special Dispatch Series - No. 1112<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Michael Wolfe]] - American poet, author, and the President and Executive Producer of [[Unity Productions Foundation]].<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week806/profile.html Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . Muslim Converts . October 8, 2004 PBS<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.islamonline.net/english/journey/2005/08/jour03.shtml Islam Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Michael X]] - [[civil rights]] activist in the [[United Kingdom]] <ref>UPS (17 May 1975) "Militant is Hanged in Trinidad After Long Fight for Clemency." ''New York Times''.</ref>
* [[Yusuf Chambers]] - U.K. based [[Da'ee]] of international fame. Yusuf Chambers is a young preacher from London, has greatly involved himself in many organizations in U.K. and outside like Peace TV, Islam Channel, Al-Jumuah magazine, Unity TV etc
 
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==See also==
* [[Lists of Muslims]]
* [[List of people who converted to Christianity]]
* [[List of converts to Hinduism]]
* [[List of converts to Judaism]]
* [[List of converts to Buddhism]]
* [[List of converts to Sikhism]]
* [[List of former Muslims]]
* [[List of people by belief]]
* [[Religious conversion]]
 
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