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Conversion to Islam is adopting Islam as a religion or faith. People who have converted to the religion often refer to themselves as "reverts." Conversion requires a formal statement of the shahādah, the credo of Islam, whereby the prospective convert must state that "there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
Mahershala Ali – American actor and first Muslim actor to win an Oscar [7] Muhammad Ali , an Olympian and professional boxer , converted to Islam from Christianity. Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., 1942–2016) – converted from Baptist [ 8 ] [ 9 ] to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam ; [ 10 ] American professional boxer ...
Nooruddeen Durkee – Muslim scholar, thinker, author, translator, and the Khalifah (successor) for North America of the Shadhdhuli School for Tranquility of Being and the Illumination of Hearts, Green Mountain Branch. Maria Massi Dakake – American scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.
Muslim by birth, she was captured by Turkish slavers and converted to Maronite Catholicism after being released by Bashir and marrying him. House of Yusupov – former Muslim Genghisid family which converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. Ibrahim Ben Ali – soldier, physician and one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin. [224]
Esther John – born to a Pakistani Muslim family; converted to Christianity; became a nurse to rural communities in Northern India and was later murdered [180] Mario Joseph – born into a Muslim family, he became a notable Imam before the age of 18, but subsequently converted to Catholicism whereupon he was tortured and forced to flee to ...
Khalid Kelly, born Terence Edward Kelly (1967 – 4 November 2016), [1] also known as Abu Osama Al-Irlandi and Taliban Terry [2] was an Irish Muslim convert and at one time the leader of Al-Muhajiroun in Ireland. Kelly was once a nurse. He was jailed in Saudi Arabia for making alcohol and transporting a large quantity of Johnnie Walker.
Rachid Hammami, best known as Brother Rachid (born 1971, Morocco) [2] is a Moroccan former Muslim and convert to Christianity whose father is an Imam. He is a Christian apologist and critic of Islam , and hosts a weekly live call-in show on Al Hayat TV where he compares Islam and Christianity .
Sheikh Yusuf Estes (born: Joseph Estes, 1944), is an American Islamic preacher and chaplain from Texas. [2] Estes converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991. He served as a Muslim chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons during the 1990s, and as a delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the UN in September 2000.