Converts to Islam from Judaism

The list Converts to Islam from Judaism includes Jemima Khan, Ali Shariati, Laila Mourad, Anna Molka Ahmed and Mounir Mourad. The list consists of 49 members and 1 sublist.

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Jemima Khan

British journalist and producer (born 1974)

Overview: Jemima Marcelle Goldsmith (born 30 January 1974; known as Jemima Khan for work) is an English screenwriter, television, film and documentary producer and the founder of Instinct Productions, a television ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1974

Age: 51

Nationality: British

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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British women television producers 177T

Pakistani women film producers 3T

Daughters of knights 96T
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Laila Mourad

Egyptian actor and singer (1918–1995)

Overview: Leila Mourad (Arabic: ليلى مراد‎; born Lilian Zaki Ibrahim Mourad, February 17, 1918 – November 21, 1995) was an Egyptian singer and actress, and one of the most famous stars in the Arab world during the ...

Date of birth: 17 February 1918

Date of death: 21 November 1995

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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20th-century women singers 3,624T

Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic 61T

Actresses from Cairo 43T
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Anjelika Akbar

Turkish pianist

Overview: Anjelika Akbar (born 1969) is a Turkish composer, pianist and writer.

Date of birth: 1969

Age: 56

Nationality: Turkish

Occupation: Composer

Gender: Female

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Turkish women pianists 19T

21st-century women musicians 2,343T

21st-century classical pianists 1,525T
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Ali Shariati

Iranian academic and activist

Overview: Ali Shariati Mazinani (Persian: علی شریعتی مزینانی‎, 23 November 1933 – 18 June 1977) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the ...

Date of birth: 23 November 1933

Date of death: 19 June 1977

Age: 43 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Writer

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Ali Shariati 1T

Iranian dissidents 88T

20th-century essayists 1,719T
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Mounir Mourad

Egyptian actor and musician

Overview: Mounir Mourad (Arabic: منير مراد‎ January 13, 1922 - October 17, 1981), born Maurice Zaki Mourad Mordechai was an Egyptian artist, singer, actor, and distinguished composer of lighthearted songs ...

Date of birth: 13 January 1922

Date of death: 17 October 1981

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Male

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20th-century male singers 5,297T

Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic 61T

Egyptian male film actors 121T
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Maryam Jameelah

American writer

Overview: Maryam Jameelah (May 23, 1934 – October 31, 2012) was an American-Pakistani author of over thirty books on Islamic culture and history and a prominent female voice for conservative and fundamentalist Islam ...

Date of birth: 23 May 1934

Date of death: 31 October 2012

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Politician

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Writers from New Rochelle, New York 93T

Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan politicians 37T

Pakistani people of American-Jewish descent 1T
7.

Dominique-France Picard

Egyptian princess

Overview: Dominique-France Loeb-Picard (born 23 November 1948), also called Princess Fadila of Egypt, is the ex-wife of Fuad II, former King of Egypt and the Sudan.

Date of birth: 23 November 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Spouse

Gender: Female

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20th-century French Jews 257T

Princesses by marriage 163T

Egyptian people of Jewish descent 12T
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Anna Molka Ahmed

Pakistani artist

Overview: Anna Molka Ahmed (13 August 1917 – 20 April 1994) was a Pakistani artist and a pioneer of fine arts in the country after its independence in 1947. She was a professor of fine arts at the University ...

Date of birth: 1917

Date of death: 1994

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Artist

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20th-century British women artists 1,115T

Pakistani people of English-Jewish descent 2T

20th-century Pakistani painters 25T
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Habibollah Asgaroladi

Iranian politician

Overview: Habibollah Asgaroladi Mosalman (Persian: حبيب‌الله عسگراولادی مسلمان‎‎; 3 January 1932 – 5 November 2013) was a leading senior Iranian politician who was the leader of Islamic Coalition Party ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1932

Date of death: 5 November 2013

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Politician

Gender: Male

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Central Council of the Islamic Republican Party members 27T

Secretaries-General of political parties in Iran 58T

Second Deputies of Islamic Consultative Assembly 13T
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Muhammad Asad

Austro-Hungarian writer and academic

Overview: Muhammad Asad (Arabic: محمد أسد‎ /muħammad asad/, Urdu: محمد أسد‎, born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Muslim journalist, traveler, writer, linguist ...

Date of birth: 2 July 1900

Date of death: 23 February 1992

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Diplomat

Gender: Male

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20th-century journalists 2,834T

20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 261T

20th-century Austrian novelists 73T
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Tali Fahima

Israeli criminal

Overview: Tali Fahima (Arabic: طالي فحيمة‎, Hebrew: טלי פחימה‎); born 8 February 1976) is an Israeli pro-Palestinian activist who was convicted for her contacts with Zakaria Zubeidi, Jenin chief of the ...

Date of birth: 1976

Age: 49

Nationality: Israeli

Occupation: Activist

Gender: Female

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Israeli women activists 37T

Female criminals 6T

Israeli people of Algerian-Jewish descent 24T
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Rashid-al-Din Hamadani

Persian physician and historian (1247-1318)

Overview: Rashīd al-Dīn Ṭabīb (Persian: رشیدالدین طبیب‎), also known as Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍlullāh Hamadānī (رشیدالدین فضل‌الله همدانی), (1247–1318) was a statesman, historian and physician in Ilkhanate-ruled ...

Date of birth: 1247

Date of death: 1318

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Doctor

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14th-century Persian physicians 13T

13th-century Persian physicians 3T

Viziers of the Ilkhanate 4T
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Bob Denard

French mercenary

Overview: Robert Denard (7 April 1929 – 13 October 2007) was a French soldier of fortune and mercenary. Sometimes known under the aliases Gilbert Bourgeaud and Saïd Mustapha Mhadjou, he was known for having ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1929

Date of death: 13 October 2007

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Military

Gender: Male

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People of the State of Katanga 14T

People of the Nigerian Civil War 47T

Comorian Roman Catholics 1T
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Gyula Germanus

Hungarian writer, Islamologist, and politician

Overview: Gyula Germanus (6 November 1884 in Budapest – 7 November 1979 in Budapest), alias Julius Abdulkerim Germanus, was a professor of oriental studies, a Hungarian writer and Islamologist, member of the Hu ...

Date of birth: 6 November 1884

Date of death: 7 November 1979

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Writers from Budapest 226T

Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1963–1967) 19T

Members of the National Assembly of Hungary (1958–1963) 23T
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Sind ibn Ali

Marhematician who introduced the decimal point

Overview: Abu al-Tayyib Sanad ibn Ali al-Yahudi (died c. 864 C.E.), was an eighth-century Iraqi Jewish astronomer, translator, mathematician and engineer employed at the court of the Abbasid caliph Al-Ma'mun. A ...

Occupation: Astronomer

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Astronomers of the Abbasid Caliphate 3T

Jews of the Abbasid Caliphate 3T

9th-century translators 8T
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Youssef Darwish

Egyptian labour lawyer, activist and communist

Overview: Youssef Darwish (Arabic: يوسف درويش‎) (October 2, 1910 – June 7, 2006) was an Egyptian labour lawyer, communist and activist. During his years of political activism, he was frequently accused of ...

Date of birth: 2 October 1910

Date of death: 7 June 2006

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: Egyptian

Occupation: Attorney

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Anti-Zionist Jews 23T

Muslim socialists 14T

Jewish anti-Zionism in Egypt 3T
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Salima Pasha

Iraqi musician

Overview: Salima Mourad or Salima Murad (Arabic: سليمة مراد‎; ‎2 February 1905 – 28 January 1974) was a well-known Iraqi Jewish singer and was well known and highly respected in the Arab world. She was ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1905

Date of death: 1974

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: Iraqi

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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20th-century women singers 3,624T

Iraqi female singers 18T

Iraqi musicians 36T
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Abdallah Schleifer

American poet

Overview: S. Abdallah S. Schleifer (born Marc Schleifer, 1935) is a prominent Middle East expert; a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (USA) and at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic ...

Date of birth: 1935

Age: 90

Nationality: American

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American University of Beirut alumni 283T

People of Jewish descent 186T

University of Pennsylvania alumni 2,511T
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Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey

American activist

Overview: Rafi Yahya Abdullah Sharif-Bey (February 28, 1940–March 2, 2006) was a pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States. He was a co-founder of the Sufi group The Noble Order of Moorish ...

Date of birth: 28 February 1940

Date of death: 2 March 2006

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

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Kidney transplant recipients 90T

Liver transplant recipients 64T

People of Jewish descent 186T
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Sarmad

Persian-speaking Armenian mystic and poet

Overview: Sarmad Kashani, or simply Sarmad (ca. 1590–1661) was a Persian-speaking Armenian mystic and poet who travelled to and made the Indian subcontinent his permanent home during the 17th century. Originally ...

Date of birth: 1590

Date of death: 1661

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Writer

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Iranian Hindus 2T

Iranian people of Armenian descent 146T

17th-century Indian poets 46T