List of converts to Islam from Judaism explained

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

Notes and References

1. Muhammad ibn Ishaq. Sirat Rasul Allah. Translated by Guillaume, A. (1955). The Life of Muhammad, pp. 240–241. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2. Stowasser, Barbara. The Mothers of the Believers in the Hadith. The Muslim World, Volume 82, Issue 1-2: 1-36.
3. Book: Shanker, Stuart . Routledge History of Philosophy . 3 . John . Marenbon . George Henry Radcliffe . Parkinson . 76 . New York . Routledge . 1998 . 0415053773 .
4. Encyclopedia: 2nd. Brill Academic Publishers. 4. 316–317. Schmitz. M.. KaʿB al-Aḥbār,. Encyclopaedia of Islam. 1974. 9004057455.
5. Book: Ṭabarī. SUNY Press. 978-0-7914-4356-9. The History of Al-Tabari: The Sasanids, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. 4 November 1999. 146. 5.
6. Web site: Jewish Encyclopedia . Jewish Encyclopedia . n.d.. 7 April 2010.
7. Book: Gyug, Richard . Medieval Cultures in Contact . 123 . 0823222128 . Fordham University Press . New York . 2003 .
8. Web site: Biography of Muhammad Asad . Thetruecall.com . 23 February 1992 . 7 April 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090606053010/http://www.thetruecall.com/home/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=194 . 6 June 2009 .
9. Web site: TAPS . 6 February 2007 . July 2006 . The Kablegram . Staunton Military Academy Foundation . PDF . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071006140822/http://www.sma-alumni.org/kg0706b.pdf . 6 October 2007 .
10. Web site: Youssef Darwish: The courage to go on. Al-Ahram Weekly. 2 December 2004. 29 March 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090420011907/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/719/profile.htm. 20 April 2009. dead.
11. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3902175,00.html Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam
12. Web site: Encyclopædia Britannica, "Rashid ad-Din", 2007 . Encyclopædia Britannica . n.d.. 7 April 2010.
13. In the Court of Yaʿqūb Ibn Killis: A Fragment from the Cairo Genizah . Mark R. . Cohen . Sasson . Somekh . . 80 . 3/4 . 1990 . 283–314 . 1454972 .
14. News: Reuters . Leila Mourad, Egyptian Film Actress, 77 . The New York Times . 23 November 1995 . 7 April 2010.
15. Book: A companion to Julius Caesar . limited . Miriam Tamara . Griffin . 84 . 140514923X . Chichester . Wiley-Blackwell . 2009 .
16. Web site: Querido, Jacob . JewishEncyclopedia.com . n.d.. 7 April 2010.
17. Book: Wexler, Paul . The Non-Jewish Origins of the Sephardic Jews . Albany . State University of New York Press . 1996 . 84 . 0791427951 .
18. [Ignác Goldziher]
19. [Encyclopaedia of Islam]
20. Web site: SHABBETHAI ẒEBI B. MORDECAI - JewishEncyclopedia.com . 2023-01-18 . www.jewishencyclopedia.com.