List of converts to Islam from Judaism

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

• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.^[1]
• Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.^[2][3]
• Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.^[4]
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.^[5]
• Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist^[6] who was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
• Tali Fahima – Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.^[7]
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician^[8]
• Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.^[9]
• Moshe Chaim Luzzatto - Rabbi and Prominent Kabbalist
• Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.^[10]
• Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.^[11]
• Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.^[12]
• Abdullah ibn Salam – 7th-century sahabi said to have been a rabbi of aristocratic stock.^[13]
• Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.^[14]
• Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.^[15]
• Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.^[16]

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7. Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam
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15. Ignác Goldziher, Schools of Koranic commentators, pg. 26. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006.
16. Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. 5, pg. 174, fascicules 81-82. Eds. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, E. van Donzel, Bernard Lewis and Charles Pellat. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 1980. ISBN 9789004060562