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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
Setsuzo Kotsuji – Born Shinto; converted to Presbyterian Christianity and then Judaism. [15] Debi Mazar – Originally Catholic; Actress who reportedly converted to Buddhism, Judaism, and briefly the Jehovah's Witnesses. [16] Ibrahim Njoya – Bamum people religion; back and forth conversions from Islam to Christianity. [17] Also created his ...
Explores Mohammed Webb's American Islamic Propaganda movement and relations with its splinter groups the First Society for the Study of Islam in America and the American Moslem Institute. Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb, Islam in America, and the American Islamic Propagation Movement" by Muhammed Abdullah al-Ahari from the introduction of his ...
Surat Al-Mulk from the Qur'an, copied by Omar ibn Sa'id in a rudimentary Fulani script. Omar ibn Said authored fourteen manuscripts in Arabic.The best known of these is his autobiographical essay, The life of Omar ben Saeed, called Morro, a Fullah Slave in Fayetteville, N.C. Owned by Governor Owen, [1] written in 1831. [9]
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]
Being Muslim in America means… “Finding the appropriate balance between committing to your faith and trying to make sense of the negative rhetoric and stereotypes from segments of our own American society. There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants.
Satti Majid's efforts to convert African Americans to Islam were recognised and celebrated, and he left a lasting impact on American Islam, emphasising unity, education, and community building. His influence on figures like Shaykh Daoud Ahmed Faisal and Elijah Muhammad , and his indirect impact on Malcolm X reshaped American Muslim history.