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Sheikh Yusuf Estes (born: Joseph Estes, 1944), is an American Islamic preacher and chaplain from Texas. [2] Estes converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991. He served as a Muslim chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons during the 1990s, and as a delegate to the United Nations World Peace Conference for Religious Leaders held at the UN in September 2000.
Yusuf Estes was born to Joseph Edward Estes and his wife, Ruth Lois Burger in Cleveland, Ohio in February of 1944. They moved to Texas in December of 1949. Yusuf (nicknamed Skip in later years) was actually a businessman and a missionary type preacher before entering into Islam in July of 1991. He changed his name to Yusuf after becoming Muslim.
Silma Ihram – Australian pioneer of Muslim education in the West, founder and former school Principal of the 'Noor Al Houda Islamic College', campaigner for racial tolerance [64] [65] [66] Yusuf Islam – musician born as Steven Demetre Georgiou and formerly known as Cat Stevens.
Soliman Pasha al-Faransawi – born Joseph Anthelme Sève, was a French-born Egyptian commander. Edoardo Agnelli – was the eldest child and only son of Gianni Agnelli,[1] the industrialist patriarch of Fiat S.p.A.,He converted to Shia Islam when he was living in New York City
Joseph E.B. Lumbard (born 1969) is an American Muslim scholar of Islamic studies [2] and associate professor of Quranic studies at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. He is the author, editor, and translator of several scholarly books and many articles on Islamic philosophy, Sufism, and Quranic studies. [3]
Ainun Nishat, academic, hydrologist and climate change specialist; Abdul Matin Patwari, 4th vice-chancellor of BUET; A. M. M. Safiullah, 10th vice-chancellor of BUET; A.K.M. Fazle Hussain, academic at the University of Houston, [1] recipient of the highest awards of the American Physical Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Saint Joseph University of Beirut (Arabic: جامعة القديس يوسف في بيروت; French: Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth, commonly known as USJ) is a private Catholic research university in Beirut, Lebanon, founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule.
By 1940, the engineering school comprised almost half of Texas A&M's enrollment. As World War II dawned, the school again assisted the war effort, with the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty volunteering to teach at military bases throughout the state. Following the war, college introduced a Ph.D. program, and industries and ...