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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.
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]
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 ]
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 ...
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]
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]
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.
The following is a list of Islamic scholars who are Converts to Islam. Abdalqadir as-Sufi; Bilal Philips; Frithjof Schuon; Hamza Yusuf; Hussein Ye; Ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī al-Samawʾal; Ivan Aguéli; Joel Hayward; John Mohammed Butt; Joseph E. B. Lumbard; Khalid Blankinship; Khalid Yasin; Malcolm X; Marmaduke Pickthall; Martin Lings; Michael ...