List of converts to Islam from Paganism
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Isabelle Eberhardt • Uluç Ali Reis • Claude Alexandre • Parameswara • Marmaduke Pickthall • Jacques-Francois Menou • Rudolf Carl von Slatin • Lord Headley • Malcolm X • Samori Ture • Muhammad Ali • Keith Ellison • Ahmad Rashad • Cat Stevens • Dave Chappelle • Nicolas Anelka • Kareem Abdul Jabbar • Murad Wilfried Hofmann • Jermaine Jackson • Yvonne Ridley | |
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| In the United Kingdom and France, about 100,000 people converted in the last decade[1] Germany (usually 300 a year)[2] and many other places around the world. |
This is a List of converts to Islam from Paganism.
- Baraq - a ruler of the Chagatai Khanate who took the name Ghiyas-ud-din after converting.[3]
- Berke - grandson of Genghis Khan and leader of the Golden Horde who was the first Mongol ruler to establish Islam in a Mongol state.[4]
- Nogai Khan - Mongol general and great-grandson of Genghis Khan.[5]
- Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan - 9th century Uyghur ruler who was one of the first Turks to convert to Islam.[6]
- Tuda Mengu - Mongol leader of the Golden Horde[7]
- David Myatt - from Paganism, former Neo-Nazi-activist[8]
- Nawrūz (Mongol emir) - a convert to Islam;[9] he played an important role in the politics of the Mongol Ilkhanate.
- Negudar - Mongol general and noyan[10]
- Samori Ture - founder of the Wassoulou Empire who resisted French rule in West Africa.[11][12]
- Tughlugh Timur - the Khan of Moghulistan.[13]
See also
- List of Sahaba
References
- ↑ Islam converts change face of Europe Jerusalem Post. Retrieved on 2010-01-22.
- ↑ Germany: Sharp rise in Muslim converts Retrieved on 2010-01-25.
- ↑ The preaching of Islam: a history of the propagation of the Muslim faith By Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, pg. 197
- ↑ Devin De Weese, Devin A, ( DeWeese. "Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde", Penn State Press, 1 September 1994, ISBN 0-271-01073-8 pg.3
- ↑ Vásáry, p.71
- ↑ Asian Mythologies, By Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger, Gerald Honigsblum, pg. 337
- ↑ Medieval Russia, 980-1584: 980-1584, By Janet Martin, by 171
- ↑ David Myatt: From Neo-Nazi to Muslim
- ↑ The fire, the star and the cross minority religions in medieval and early modern Iran, by Aptin Khanbaghi, pg. 69-70
- ↑ The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful, pg. 226
- ↑ Learning to Love Africa, By Monique Maddy, pg. 156
- ↑ Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914, By Bruce Vandervort, pg. 128
- ↑ Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East By Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh, pg. 30
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