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Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley – convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam. Carla Amina Baghajati — She has been described as one of the best-known faces of Islam in Austria. Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey — Born Yale Jean Singer to an Orthodox Jewish family, he converted to Islam and took on the name Rafi Sharif in the late 1950s.
A. George Baker – American Protestant clergyman and medical doctor who converted to Islam. [15] French nobleman – Alexandre de Bonneval as "Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa" Abdullah Beg of Kartli – Georgian convert to Islam; served as a viceroy of Kartli for the Iranian Shah, Nadir in 1737; [16] claimant to the kingship of Kartli
Widely acclaimed British scholar. He was raised as a Protestant, became an atheist, and later converted to Islam. [4] Ingrid Mattson: Canadian scholar and former president of the Islamic Society of North America; was raised in Catholicism but left it years before conversion. [5] [6] Nursultan Nazarbayev: Former President of Kazakhstan. [7]
As such, within a period of a few weeks, a dozen people of Christian and Muslim backgrounds converted to the Ahmadiyya interpretation of Islam. Among those were some of the earliest converts to Islam in the United States, who converted to Islam in the early 1900s, such as Ahmad Anderson and George Baker. [31]
The first issue appeared on May 12, 1893, and was dedicated to The Interests of the American Islamic Propaganda and "to spread the light of Islam in America". It lasted for seven monthly issues (May to November 1893). Webb was the main representative of Islam at the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. On September 20 and 21, 1893, he ...
There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants. Currently there are people arguing for our civil rights, and we’re also seeing those who want to smear our entire faith and say that Islam is an inherently violent religion. These are exciting times to be an American Muslim, that’s for sure.
Hakim Jamal – civil rights activist; Member of the Nation of Islam but converted to traditional Islam after the assassination of his cousin Malcolm X. Mustafa T. Kasubhai - first Muslim federal judge in the United States; Zalmay Khalilzad – former US Ambassador to the United Nations; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan [30]
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