Famous Converts To Islam

Famous converts to Islam

Shabbetai Tzevi - seventeenth-century Turkish Jew who had claimed to be Messiah and attracted a large following. His conversion to Islam largely dissolved this mass messianic Jewish movement, but also resulted in the development of the ongoing Donmeh religious movement. Cat Stevens - British rock musician; changed name to Yusuf Islam John Coltrane - prominent jazz saxophonist and composer Art Blakey - American Jazz musician Muhammad Ali - boxer Matthew Saad Muhammad - world champion boxer (formerly Matt Franklin) Dwight Muhammad Qawi - world champion boxer (formerly Dwight Braxton) Eddie Mustapha Muhammad - world champion lightweight boxer (formerly Eddie Gregory) Mustafa Hamsho - boxer Akbar Muhammad - boxer Mike Tyson - boxer Hamdan Chris Eubank - boxer (super middleweight boxing champion) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - basketball player Queen Noor - American-born queen of Jordan during reign of the late King Hussein I

Maryam Jameelah - Jewish American essayist and poet. Formerly Margaret Marcus. Daniel Moore - Anglo-American poet Muhammad Marmaduke (William) Pickthall - author and Quran translator Michael Wolfe - author, journalist (The Hadj: An American's Pilgrimage to Mecca; One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing About the Muslim Pilgrimage; ABC Nightline documentary "An American in Mecca") Aminah Assilmi - Denver area broadcast journalist; now director of the International Union of Muslim Women (former Baptist) Pamela Taylor - science fiction author; Publications Officer of the Islamic Writers Alliance and co-chair of the Progressive Muslim Union Jemima Goldsmith - daughter of British billionaire Sir James, who married Imran Khan. Changed name to Haiqa Khan. Mumia Abu-Jamal - journalist, Black Panther, political activist, known for his 1982 conviction and death sentence on charges of a police officer, and for a nationally popular counter-culture campaign to free him John Muhammad and John Malvo - infamous "Beltway Sniper" serial killers who terrorized Washington, D.C. area residents