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Due to this, those who convert are typically referred to as reverts. In Islam, the practice of religious circumcision is considered a sunnah custom, not a requirement for conversion, and furthermore it is never mentioned in the Quran. [24] [25] [26] The majority of clerical opinions holds that circumcision is not required upon entering the ...
Muhammad Khodabandeh (Oljeitu) – Nestorian Christian upbringing; Buddhism, Sunni Islam, and Shia Islam. David Kirk – Originally Baptist; became a deacon in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and later converted to the Orthodox Church in America. [14] Setsuzo Kotsuji – Born Shinto; converted to Presbyterian Christianity and then Judaism. [15]
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."
The first Muslims to arrive in America were enslaved people from West Africa (such as Omar ibn Said and Ayuba Suleiman Diallo). During the Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 10 to 20 percent [4] [5] of the slaves brought to colonial America from West Africa were Muslims, [6] [7] however Islam was suppressed on plantations. [4]
Campbell Mustafa Ağa – Scottish convert to Islam who from 1775 was the chief instructor in the new Ottoman naval mathematical academy (the Hendishâne). Claude Alexandre, Count of Bonneval – French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.
Marmaduke Pickthall – English convert to Islam, famous for his English-language translation of the Quran known as The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. José Padilla – also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah; US citizen from Brooklyn, New York; convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists; also known as "the dirty bomber" [ 111 ]
Many Hindus voluntarily convert to Islam in order to acquire Watan Cards and National Identification Cards. These converts are also given land and money. For example, 428 poor Hindus in Matli were converted between 2009 and 2011 by the Madrassa Baitul Islam, a Deobandi seminary in Matli, which pays off the debts of Hindus converting to Islam. [179]
Former Muslims or ex-Muslims are people who were Muslims, but subsequently left Islam. Although their numbers have increased, ex-Muslims still face ostracism or retaliation from their families and communities due to beliefs about apostasy in Islam. [1] In 23 countries apostasy is a punishable crime and in 13 of those it carries the death ...