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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 December 2024. Notable people who converted to Islam from Hinduism This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of some converts to Islam from Hinduism. Name Notes Refs ...
Ghar Wapsi (Hindi, meaning "Returning Home") is the programme of religious conversion to Hinduism (and, to a lesser extent, Sikhism) from Islam, Christianity, and other religions in India conducted by Indian Hindu nationalist organisations such as Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and also overseas such as in Indonesia. [1]
The sons were taken to Sirhind and coerced for conversion to Islam in the court of Wazir Khan, the provincial governor. [4] Sikh accounts accuse Sucha Nand, the Hindu Diwan, to have been the most vocal advocate for executing the children; Sher Muhammad Khan, the Nawab of Meherkotla, despite being an ally of the Mughals and losing relatives in ...
King who converted to Islam, then reconverted. [11] Netaji Palkar: Maratha Empire's noble and commander-in-chief of the army of Chhatrapati Shivaji,(converted to Islam then reconverted) King of the Maratha Empire. [12] [13] Zubeida Begum: Film actress, on whose life story the film Zubeidaa was based; converted to Hinduism upon marriage. [14 ...
After his conversion to Islam, he later became the founder of the Kedah Sultanate. [208] Shah Shahidullah Faridi (born John Gilbert Lennard) – British convert. [209] Ibn Sahl of Seville – Jewish poet and diplomat, born in 1212–3 to a Jewish family in Seville; Mubarak Shah (Chagatai Khan) – He was the first Chagatai Khan to convert to Islam
The BJP later took the issue of Meenakshipuram conversion to the Parliament when it reached the Lok Sabha in 1984 with two seats. Its cause gathered momentum over the years and culminated with the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992. [20] Many of the converts left Islam later on. [3] By July 1981, some of the converts returned to Hinduism. [21]
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Khojas were under pressure from the Āghā Khāns as well as Muslim and Hindu fundamentalist movements to alter their religion. The religious fundamentalists considered the Khojas to be heretics who should convert to Sunnī or Twelver Shīʿī Islam or normative Hinduism.
Converts to Islam may be referred to as "converts," "reverts," or "new Muslims." Many people who have converted to Islam prefer to call themselves "reverts," in reference to a hadith that says that all people are Muslims at birth, but only come to "leave" the faith due to the environment they are raised in. [1] [2] The belief in the innate condition of Islam in all people is referred to as ...