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Conversion to Islam is adopting Islam as a religion or faith. People who have converted to the religion often refer to themselves as "reverts." Conversion requires a formal statement of the shahādah, the credo of Islam, whereby the prospective convert must state that "there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah."
Marmaduke Pickthall – English convert to Islam, famous for his English-language translation of the Quran known as The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. José Padilla – also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah; US citizen from Brooklyn, New York; convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists; also known as "the dirty bomber" [ 111 ]
Campbell Mustafa Ağa – Scottish convert to Islam who from 1775 was the chief instructor in the new Ottoman naval mathematical academy (the Hendishâne). Claude Alexandre, Count of Bonneval – French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.
People convert to a different religion for various reasons, including active conversion by free choice due to a change in beliefs, [3] secondary conversion, deathbed conversion, conversion for convenience, marital conversion, and forced conversion. Religious conversion can also be driven by practical considerations.
Rabiah Hutchinson – "Matriarch" of radical Islam in Australia, born to a Sydney Presbyterian family; she later become a Baptist, then converted to Catholicism and eventually, to Sunni Islam. [13] Semei Kakungulu – Originally followed traditional African religion, then converted to Protestantism, Malakite Christianity, and finally Judaism.
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Hamid Algar – scholar and convert to Shia Islam, received his Ph.D. in oriental studies from Cambridge [6] [7] Marzieh Hashemi – an American-Iranian journalist and television presenter. She is a natural-born citizen of the United States and a naturalized citizen of the Islamic Republic of Iran [8]