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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.
The story's protagonist, Imama Hashim, belongs to an influential Ahmadiyya Muslim family living in Islamabad. She decides to convert to Sunni Islam after being influenced by her friends. She attends her senior Shabiha's lectures in secrecy from her family and her roommates, Javeria and Rabia.
The Muslims of Panipat had a reputation for being zealous in the faith of Islam and were well-versed in Islamic jurisprudence. [dubious – discuss] Imad ud-Din Lahiz was a prolific writer. He translated the Quran into Urdu and also composed several Bible commentaries.
He was made the brother in Islam of Rafi ibn Malik of the Zurayq clan; [1]: 299 but an alternative tradition names his brother in Islam as Talha ibn Ubaydallah. [1]: 165 Sa'id and Talha missed the Battle of Badr because Muhammad sent them ahead as scouts to report on the movements of Abu Sufyan's caravan. When they heard that they had missed ...
According to Muslim tradition, Sheikh Tahir was born as a Hindu by the name of Odero Lal (alternatively spelled Udero Lal), but converted to Islam as a teenager. [7] Odero Lal in his youth was said to have been attracted the attention of a Sufi saint from Multan, whose association then lead Odero Lal to convert to Islam and adopt the name ...
Converts to Islam may be referred to as "converts," "reverts," or "new Muslims." Many people who have converted to Islam prefer to call themselves "reverts," in reference to a hadith that says that all people are Muslims at birth, but only come to "leave" the faith due to the environment they are raised in. [1] [2] The belief in the innate condition of Islam in all people is referred to as ...
Zinira al-Rumiya (Arabic: زنيرة الرومية, Zinira the Roman) (correct pronunciation is Zinira or Zinnirah, as specified in the الرحیق المختوم - The common pronunciation Zunaira, is also correct), was a woman in Arabia, an early convert to Islam and one of the disciples of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Muhammad al-Tijani a 20th-century Shi'a scholar writes that "He was a Jew from Yemen who pretended to have embraced Islam then went to Medina during the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab." [ 16 ] Muhammad Jawad Chirri writes, after having quoted a hadith, "This dialogue should alert us to the deceptive and successful attempt on the part of Ka'b to ...