John Nelson (convert)
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John Nelson was an early English convert to Islam in the 16th century.[1]
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Islam in Britain, 1558 - 1685 by Nabil Matar (Cambridge University Press 1998)
- p34: The first English convert to Islam whose name survives in an English source, The voyage made to Tripolis (1583), was a servant, "a son of a yeoman of our Queen's Guard ... His name was John Nelson."
