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Kösem Sultan – born Anastasia, the daughter of an Orthodox priest, and later enslaved by Ottomans and sent to Istanbul, where she became one of the most powerful and influential women in the Ottoman Empire [150] [151] Handan Sultan – mother of Ottoman sultan Ahmed I [152] Shaun King – American writer and Black Lives Matter activist
1983-1999 served as priest in Russian Orthodox Church. 1990-1993 served as Member of Russia's Parliament. Polosin is an Islamic scholar and an expert on interfaith dialogue and Muslim-Christian relations who is currently Director of Moscow-based Al Wasatiya Center for interfaith dialogue. [2]
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 ...
Youssef Antoun Makhlouf was born on May 8, 1828, one of five children, in the mountain village of Bekaa Kafra, the highest by elevation in Lebanon.His father, Antoun Zaarour Makhlouf, was a mule driver who died in August 1831 while returning from corvée for the Turkish army, leaving his wife Brigitta (née Chidiac) a widow to care for their children.
Muslim by birth, she was captured by Turkish slavers and converted to Maronite Catholicism after being released by Bashir and marrying him. House of Yusupov – former Muslim Genghisid family which converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity. Ibrahim Ben Ali – soldier, physician and one of the earliest American settlers of Turkish origin. [224]
Up until his ordination, he had worked for the Egyptian government for 19 years, where he resigned his position in 1976 in order to fully take on the duties of becoming a priest. Younan had only served a few weeks in Assiut after his ordination, and was later relocated to the Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Azbakeya, Cairo, which ...
Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley – convert to Islam and author or translator of many books on Islam. Carla Amina Baghajati — She has been described as one of the best-known faces of Islam in Austria. Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey — Born Yale Jean Singer to an Orthodox Jewish family, he converted to Islam and took on the name Rafi Sharif in the late 1950s.
He and his wife first became interested in the faith after the birth of their first child. A friendship with a Catholic priest later helped lead to Hank and his wife's conversion in 1959. He was known to frequently read Thomas à Kempis' 15th-century book The Imitation of Christ, which he kept in his locker. [1] [2]