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In Persia, during the Safavid dynasty of the 16th and 17th centuries, Jews were forced to proclaim publicly that they had converted to Islam, and were given the name Jadid-al-Islam (New Muslims). In 1661, an Islamic edict was issued overturning these forced conversions, and the Jews returned to practicing Judaism openly.
This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism. Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 7th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wife Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi ...
The Jews of Islam (1984) is a book written by Middle-East historian and scholar Bernard Lewis.. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the history and the state of the Jews living in the Islamic world (as contrasted to the Jews of Christendom).
There is considerable debate about the nature of antisemitism in Islam, including Muslim attitudes towards Jews, Islamic teachings on Jews and Judaism, and the treatment of Jews in Islamic societies throughout the history of Islam. Islamic literary sources have described Jewish groups in negative terms and have also called for acceptance of them.
Berber Jews, the majority of whom were assimilated and converted to Islam, especially during the historical persecutions of the Almohadic Caliphate in the Middle Ages. The modern population of Berber Jews in Africa now numbers about 8,000 people in Morocco , with the majority having emigrated to Israel since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War , along ...
People of the Book, or Ahl al-Kitāb (Arabic: أهل الكتاب), is a classification in Islam for the adherents of those religions that are regarded by Muslims as having received a divine revelation from Allah, generally in the form of a holy scripture. The classification chiefly refers to pre-Islamic Abrahamic religions. [1]
The rise of Islam and its appreciation of the nature of God are examined. Armstrong analyzes how modern Shia Islam , with its emphasis upon social action in the service of Allah , the Islamic prophet Muhammad , and the Shia Imams , was a key factor that brought about the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
Wahb himself had turned from Judaism to Islam, according to Al-Tibr al-Masluk (ed. 1306 A.H., p. 41). Other biographers, such as Al-Nawawi and Ibn Khallikan , did not write that he was Jewish. The fact that he was well versed in the Isra'iliyyat , on which he wrote much, probably gave rise to the statement that he was Jewish, although he might ...