List of converts to Islam from Judaism

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This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.

• Abd Allah ibn Salam – 7th-century Companion of the Prophet from the Banu Qaynuqa of Yathrib (now Medina), one of the Jewish tribes of Arabia.^[1]
• Safiyya bint Huyayy of the Banu Nadir, a widowed captive from the Jewish tribe of Yathrib and one of the wives of Muhammad^[2]
• Ibn Malka al-Baghdadi: an influential 12th-century companion of Maimonides who was a physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelianism and Aristotelian physics.^[3]
• Ka'b al-Ahbar (Aqiva the Haber "Scholar"): 7th-century Yemenite Jew, considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.^[4][5]
• Al-Samawal al-Maghribi – 12th-century mathematician and medieval Islamic astronomer, son of the scholar and piyyut-writer Judah ibn Abbas.^[6][7]
• Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss: Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s and became the Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.^[8]
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey: 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islam in the United States, he was a member of Moorish Science Temple 13 and later an Ahmadi.^[9]
• Youssef Darwish: labour lawyer and activist^[10] who was one of the Karaite Jews who remained in British-influenced Egypt after the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948.
• Tali Fahima – Algerian Jewish left-wing activist citizen of Israel who was convicted of aiding Palestinian fedayeen by Israel for her work with the children of Jenin refugee camp in Palestine and her coresidence with Zakaria Zubeidi. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.^[11]
• Rayhana bint Zayd: a member of the Banu Nadir widowed and captured and subsequently a wife of Muhammad.
• Rashid al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century physician of the Ilkhanate.^[12]
• Ya'qub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate.^[13]
• Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Her faher was a hazzan and she was of Syrian and Moroccan Jewish descent.^[14]
• Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century Ashkenazi writer, journalist and orientalist from Kyiv.^[15]
• Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of Sabbatai Zevi, the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah.^[16]
• Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.^[17]
• Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and qira'at (Quranic recitation), and the first compiler of the different styles of qira'at.^[18]
• Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of early Arabic grammar and the first grammarian of Kufa.^[19]
• Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah who converted to Islam under threat of death from Ottoman Caliphate along with many of his followers, who are known as Sabbateans.^[20]

See also

• Islamic–Jewish relations
• Dönmeh, followers of Sabbatai Zevi who converted with him