List of converts to Islam from Judaism

This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism.

• Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 6th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[1]
• Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wife[2]
• Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Baruch Ben Malka) – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics.[3]
• Ka'ab al-Ahbar – 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.[4][5]
• Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.[6][7]
• Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.[8]
• Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.[9]
• Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist[10] who was one of the few from the Karaite Jewish community to remain in Egypt after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
• Tali Fahima – Israeli left-wing activist, convicted of aiding Palestinian fighters. Converted to Islam in Umm al-Fahm in June 2010.[11]
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician[12]
• Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.[13]
• Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.[14]
• Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.[15]
• Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.[16]
• Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.[17]
• Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.[18]
• Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.[19]