List of converts to Islam from Judaism

This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.

• Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 7th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.^[1]
• Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wife^[2]
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Baruch Ben Malka) – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.^[3]
• Ka'ab al-Ahbar – 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.^[4][5]
• Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.^[6][7]
• Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.^[8]
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.^[9]
• Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist^[10] who was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
• Tali Fahima – Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.^[11]
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician^[12]
• Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.^[13]
• Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.^[14]
• Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.^[15]
• Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.^[16]
• Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.^[17]
• Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.^[18]
• Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.^[19]
• Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century Jewish messiah claimant who converted to Islam under threat of death from the Ottoman authorities.^[20]

See also

• Islamic–Jewish relations
• Dönmeh, followers of Sabbatai Zevi who converted with him

References