Abdullah Jacques-François de Boussay, baron de Menou

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The official French Newspaper of its day, Le Moniteur, carried the accounts of Napoleon's conversion to Islam in 1798 CE, and mentions his new Muslim name which was ‘Aly Napoleon Bonaparte’. He commends the conversion of General Jacques Menou, who became known as General ‘Abdullah-Jaques Menou’, who later married an Egyptian lady, Sitti Zoubeida, who was descended from the line of the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.

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