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Murat Reis or Jan Janszoon – Dutch Barbary pirate who was an admiral for the Republic of Salé; converted from Christianity; became a very active Muslim missionary who tried to convert Christian slaves [130] Yvonne Ridley – British journalist, from Anglicanism; converted after being kidnapped and released by the Taliban [131] [132]
Robert of St. Albans (died 1187) [1] was an English templar knight who converted to Islam from Christianity in 1185. [2] In 1187, he led an army for Saladin [3] against the Crusaders during the Battle of Hattin as well as the reconquest of Jerusalem, [4] which was at the time under the control of the Franks.
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Empire and contributing to the subsequent growth in power of the French Capetian dynasty during the 13th century.
Converts to Christianity from Islam Total population Between 8.4 million (2014 study) - 10.2 million (2015 study) According to the study 6 million of those converts came from Indonesia; however, the 6 million figure also includes descendants of those converts. Significant numbers of Muslims convert to Christianity in: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, [6] [7] Australia, Austria, [8] Azerbaijan ...
Alice Callaghan, priest, former Roman Catholic nun [19] Robert Corrigan, Irish-Canadian settler and farmer [20] Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, English Reformer [21] Alberto Cutié, television and radio host, priest [22] Tim Dlugos, American poet [23] John Donne, English poet and priest [24] Dermot Dunne, Dean of Christ Church, Dublin ...
Russian Orthodox icon of The Good Thief in Paradise (Moscow school, c. 1560). A deathbed conversion is the adoption of a particular religious faith shortly before dying. Making a conversion on one's deathbed may reflect an immediate change of belief, a desire to formalize longer-term beliefs, or a desire to complete a process of conversion already underway.
Prester John (Latin: Presbyter Ioannes) was a mythical Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient .
After Penda's death in 655, his son Peada, who was Oswig's son-in-law, became king of the southern Mercians. [126] Peada was killed within a year, with Bede attributing the killing to his wife. [ 126 ] [ 132 ] Two or three years later, there was an uprising led by Mercian elites that put Penda's Christian son Wulfhere on the throne who ruled ...