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Converted to Christianity
a.. Aslan Abashidze - Former leader of the Ajarian Autonomous Republic in
western Georgia.[2]
b.. Mehmet Ali Agca - Turkish ultra-nationalist assassin, who shot and
wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. In early 2009, Agca renounced
Islam in prison and announced his intention to convert to the Catholic faith
upon release.[3][4]
c.. Magdi Allam - Italy's most famous Islamic affairs journalist.[5]
d.. Bahaa el-Din Ahmed Hussein el-Akkad - Former Egyptian Muslim
sheikh.[6]
e.. Hussain Andaryas - Afghan Christian activist and tele-evangelist.[7]
f.. Josephine Bakhita - Roman Catholic saint from Darfur, Sudan.[8]
g.. Fathima Rifqa Bary - American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who drew
international attention in 2009 when she ran away from home and claimed that
her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to Christianity.[9]
h.. Sarah Balabagan - Filipina prisoner in the United Arab Emirates during
1994 - 96.[10]
i.. Abo of Tiflis - Christian activist and the Patron Saint of the city of
Tbilisi, Georgia.[11]
j.. Don Juan of Persia - Late 16th and early 17th century figure in Iran
and Spain.[12]
k.. Utameshgaray of Kazan - Khan of Kazan Khanate.[13]
l.. Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan - Last khan of Kazan Khanate. [13]
m.. Sayed Borhan khan - Khan of Qasim Khanate from 1627 to 1679. [13]
n.. Simeon Bekbulatovich - Khan of Qasim Khanate.[13]
o.. The Sibirsky family - The foremost of many Genghisid (Shaybanid) noble
families formerly living in Russia.[14]
p.. Maria Temrjukovna - Circassian princess, and second wife to Ivan IV of
Russia who was born in a Muslim upbringing, and baptised into the Russian
Orthodox Church on August 21 1561.[15]
q.. The Shihab family - Prominent Lebanese noble family. The family
originally belonged to Sunni Islam and converted to Christianity at the end
of the 18th century.[16]
r.. Jacob Frank - 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be
the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also of
King David. Frank publicly converted to Islam in 1757 and later to
Christianity at Poland in 1759, but actually presented himself as the
Messiah of a syncretic derivation of Shabbatai Zevi's Messianism now
referred to as Frankism.[17]
s.. Walid Shoebat - American author and former member of the PLO.[18]
t.. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti - Anglican Bishop of Iran from 1961 to 1990.[19]
u.. Ibrahim Ben Ali - Soldier, physician and one of the earliest American
settlers of Turkish origin.[20]
v.. Nonie Darwish - Egyptian-American writer and public speaker.[21]
w.. Mehdi Dibaj - Iranian pastor and Christian activist.[22]
x.. Eldridge Cleaver - Author, prominent American civil rights leader, and
key member of the Black Panther Party. He converted to Mormonism.[23] [24]
y.. Ghorban Tourani - Former Iranian Sunni Muslim who became a Christian
minister. Following multiple murder threats , he was abducted and murdered
on November 22, 2005.[25]
z.. Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African Republic Emperor (from
Christianity to Islam back to Christianity).[26]
Italian journalist Magdi Allam converted to Roman Catholicism during the
Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI[5]
a.. Patrick Sookhdeo - British Anglican canon[27]
b.. Mark A. Gabriel- Egyptian Islamic scholar and writer[28]
c.. Akbar Gbaja-Biamila - American football player.[29][30]
d.. Alexander Kazembek - Russian Orientalist, historian and philologist of
Azeri origin .[31]
e.. Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila - American football player.[29]
f.. Qadry Ismail - Former American football player.[32]
g.. Raghib Ismail - Former American football player.[33]
h.. Tunch Ilkin - Former American football player.[34]
i.. Lina Joy - Malaysian convert to Christianity. The desire to have her
conversion recognized was the subject of a court case in Malaysia.[35]
j.. Carlos Menem - Former President of Argentina. Raised a Muslim but
converted to Roman Catholicism, the official religion of Argentina, due to
his political aspirations. [36]
k.. Marina Nemat - Canadian author of Iranian descent and former political
prisoner of the Iranian government. Born into a Christian family, she
converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to
Christianity.[37]
l.. George Weah - Liberian soccer player (from Christianity to Islam back
to Christianity).[38]
m.. Momolu Dukuly - Liberian foreign minister.[39]
n.. Nazli Sabri - Queen consort of Egypt. [40] [41]
On St George's Day, 2005 Bosnian film director Emir Kusturica left Islam and
was baptised into the Serb Orthodox Church[42]
a.. Tugçe Kazaz - Turkish model who was Miss Turkey in 2001.[43]
b.. Begum Samru - Powerful lady of north India, ruling a large area from
Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh.[44]
c.. Abdul Rahman - Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the death
penalty because of foreign pressure.[45]
d.. Mathieu Kérékou- President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back
to Christianity).[46]
e.. Sheikh Deen Muhammad - British Indian traveller, surgeon and
entrepreneur who introduced shampooing and the Indian take-away curry house
restaurant in Britain, and was the first Indian to have written a book in
the English language.[47][48]
f.. Kitty Kirkpatrick - Daughter of James Achilles Kirkpatrick, British
Resident in Hyderabad and Khair-un-Nissa, a Hyderabadi noblewoman.[49]
g.. Emily Ruete - (born Sayyida Salme) Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. [50]
[51][52]
h.. Emir Kusturica - Bosnian filmmaker and actor.[42][53]
i.. Daniel Ali- Iraqi Kurdish Christian author, speaker and Islamic
scholar; evangelizes in Catholic, Protestant and Messianic Jewish circles.
[54][55]
j.. Fernăo Lopez - Portugese nobleman, soldier and the first known
permanent inhabitant of the remote Island of Saint Helena in the South
Atlantic Ocean.[56]
k.. Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky - Russian officer of Circassian origin
who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia.[57]
l.. Umar ibn Hafsun - Leader of anti-Ummayad dynasty forces in southern
Iberia. Hafsun converted to Christianity with his sons and ruled over
several mountain valleys for nearly forty years, having the castle Bobastro
as his residence.[58]
m.. Casilda of Toledo - Saint of the Roman Catholic Church.[59]
n.. Saint Alodia and Saint Nunilo - Christian martyrs and confessors who
were put to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba
for apostasy.[60]
o.. Aurelius and Natalia - Christian martyrs who were put to death during
the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy.[61]
p.. Johannes Avetaranian - (born Muhammad Shukri Efendi), Christian
missionary and Turkish descendent of Prophet Muhammad.[62]
q.. Paul Mulla - Turkish scholar and professor of Islamic Studies at the
Pontifical Oriental Institute.[63]
r.. Hamid Pourmand - Former Iranian army colonel and lay leader of the
Jama'at-e Rabbani, the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God church in
Iran. [64]
s.. Donald Fareed - Iranian Christian tele-evangelist and minister.[65]
t.. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross- Counter-terrorism expert and attorney (from
Judaism to Islam to Christianity).[66][67]
u.. Zachariah Anani - Former Sunni Muslim Lebanese militia fighter [68]
v.. Malika Oufkir - Author, activist and former prisoner of the Moroccan
Royal Family. [69]
Argentine president, Carlos Menem converted to Roman Catholicism due to his
political aspirations [36]
a.. Ruffa Gutierrez - Filipina actress, model and former beauty queen
(from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)[70]
b.. Fadhma Aďt Mansour - Mother of French writers Jean Amrouche and Taos
Amrouche. [71]
c.. Imad ud-din Lahiz - Prolific Islamic writer, preacher and Quranic
translator.[72]
d.. Dr. Nur Luke - Uyghur Bible translator. [73]
e.. Hakan Tastan and Turan Topal - Two Turkish Christian converts who went
on trial in 2006, on charges of "allegedly insulting 'Turkishness' and
inciting religious hatred against Islam".[74]
f.. Mohammed Hegazy - First Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to
seek official recognition of his conversion from the Egyptian
Government.[75]
g.. Francis Bok - Sudanese-American activist, convert to Islam from
Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith.[76]
h.. Josef Mässrur - (born Ghäsim Khan) missionary to Chinese Turkestan
with the Mission Union of Sweden.[77]
i.. Gulshan Esther - Pakistani convert from Islam to Christianity.[78]
j.. Ubayd-Allah ibn Jahsh - Brother of Zaynab bint Jahsh, the wife of
Prophet Muhammad and one of the male Sahaba (companions of the Prophet).[79]
k.. Jabalah ibn al-Aiham - last ruler of the Ghassanid state in Syria and
Jordan in the seventh century AD. After the Islamic conquest of Levant he
converted to Islam in AD 638. He reverted to Christianity later on and lived
in Anatolia until he died in AD 645.[80]
l.. Constantine the African - Baghdad-educated Muslim who died in 1087 as
a Christian monk at Monte Cassino. [81][82]
m.. Estevanico - Berber originally from Morocco and one of the early
explorers of the Southwestern United States.[83]
n.. Abraham of Bulgaria - Martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.
[84]
Al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef claims to have embraced Christianity while
in ADX Florence Supermax prison. However, the prison staff does not believe
Yousef's conversion is sincere.[85][86]
a.. St. Adolphus - Christian martyr who was put to death along with his
brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II, Caliph of Córdoba for apostasy. [87]
b.. Nasir Siddiki - Canadian evangelist, author, and business
consultant.[88]
c.. Matthew Ashimolowo - Nigerian-born British pastor and evangelist.[89]
d.. Michal Czajkowski - Polish-Cossack writer and political emigre who
worked both for the resurrection of Poland and the reestablishment of a
Cossack Ukraine.[90]
e.. Stefan Razvan - Gypsy prince who ruled Moldavia for six months in
1595.[91]
f.. Skanderbeg - Albanian monarch and military leader. Skanderbeg
converted to Islam from Christianity but reverted back to Christianity later
in life. [1] |
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