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[edit]
- Islamic–Jewish relations
- Dönmeh, followers of Sabbatai Zevi who converted with him
References[edit]
- ^ Muhammad ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life of Muhammad, pp. 240–241. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ Stowasser, Barbara. The Mothers of the Believers in the Hadith. The Muslim World, Volume 82, Issue 1-2: 1-36.
- ^ Shanker, Stuart; Marenbon, John; Parkinson, George Henry Radcliffe (1998). Routledge History of Philosophy. Vol. 3. New York: Routledge. p. 76. ISBN 0415053773.
- ^ Schmitz, M. (1974). "KaʿB al-Aḥbār,". Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 316–317. ISBN 9004057455.
- ^ Ṭabarī (4 November 1999). The History of Al-Tabari: The Sasanids, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. Vol. 5. SUNY Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-7914-4356-9.
- ^ "Jewish Encyclopedia". Jewish Encyclopedia. n.d. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Gyug, Richard (2003). Medieval Cultures in Contact. New York: Fordham University Press. p. 123. ISBN 0823222128.
- ^ "Biography of Muhammad Asad". Thetruecall.com. 23 February 1992. Archived from the original on 6 June 2009. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ "TAPS" (PDF). The Kablegram. Staunton Military Academy Foundation. July 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
- ^ "Youssef Darwish: The courage to go on". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2 December 2004. Archived from the original on 20 April 2009. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
- ^ Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam
- ^ "Encyclopædia Britannica, "Rashid ad-Din", 2007". Encyclopædia Britannica. n.d. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Cohen, Mark R.; Somekh, Sasson (1990). "In the Court of Yaʿqūb Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah". Jewish Quarterly Review. 80 (3/4): 283–314. JSTOR 1454972.
- ^ "Leila Mourad, Egyptian Film Actress, 77". The New York Times. Reuters. 23 November 1995. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Griffin, Miriam Tamara, ed. (2009). A companion to Julius Caesar. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. p. 84. ISBN 140514923X.
- ^ "Querido, Jacob". JewishEncyclopedia.com. n.d. Retrieved 7 April 2010.
- ^ Wexler, Paul (1996). The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 84. ISBN 0791427951.
- ^ Ignác Goldziher, Schools of Koranic commentators, pg. 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006.
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 5, pg. 174, fascicules 81–82. Eds. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, E. van Donzel, Bernard Lewis and Charles Pellat. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1980. ISBN 9789004060562
- ^ "SHABBETHAI ẒEBI B. MORDECAI - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 18 January 2023.