List of converts to the Baháʼí Faith from Islam

This is a List of converts to the Baháʼí Faith from Islam.

These were mostly people who were followers of the Baháʼu'lláh at the time he founded the Baháʼí Faith.

• Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl – foremost Baháʼí scholar who helped spread the Baháʼí Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States. One of the few Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh who never actually met Baháʼu'lláh.[1]
• Mishkín-Qalam – prominent Baháʼí and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th-century Persia.[2]
• Táhirih – Persian poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran.[3]
• Nabíl-i-Aʻzam – Baháʼí historian and one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh[4]
• Hají Ákhúnd – eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.[5]
• Ibn-i-Abhar – appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Baháʼu'lláh.[6]
• Mírzá Mahmúd – eminent follower of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.[7]
• Núrayn-i-Nayyirayn – two brothers who were beheaded in the city of Isfahan in 1879.[8]
• Somaya Ramadan[9] – 2001 winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature.
• Hasan M. Balyuzi - a descendant of relatives of the Báb, he was nevertheless a Muslim until he joined the religion following developing a friendship with Shoghi Effendi circa 1925, and eventually was named a Hand of the Cause of God.[10]