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Template:Muslims and controversies
This is a list of notable people who have been Muslims sometime during their lives.
Converted to Christianity
- Nonie Darwish
- Emir Caner
- Ergun Caner
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa - Central African Republic Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)
- Mark A. Gabriel- Islamic scholar and writer
- Walid Shoebat
- Qadry Ismail
- Raghib Ismail
- Tunch Ilkin - former American football player
- Tuğçe Kazaz- Miss Turkey 2001
- Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
- Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila
- Hussain Andaryas
- Kola Boof
- Patrick Sookhdeo
- Ghorban Tourani
- Abdul Rahman- Afghan convert to Christianity who escaped the death penalty because of foreign pressure.
- Mathieu Kérékou- President of Benin (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)
- Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky
- Emily Ruete - Born Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman
- Carlos Menem
- Alexander Kazembek (Russian orientalist)
- George Weah - Also a former football player
- Ergun Caner
- Yadegar Moxammat of Kazan
- Begum Samru
Became Atheist
- Salman Rushdie- author who wrote many books critical of Islam
- Al-Ma'arri
- Lounès Matoub
- Ibn Warraq- bestselling author on Islam
- Enver Hoxha - Noted for a form of Stalinism.
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Somali born politician.
Religious founders
- Ariffin Mohamed - Founder of the Sky Kingdom.
- Salih ibn Tarif - Proclaimed himself prophet of a, then new and now extinct, religion.
- Báb - founded Babism all his followers upon his death accepted Bahá'u'lláh
- Bahá'u'lláh - claimed to be the prophet the Báb spoke of thus forming Bahai
Buddhism
- Tillakaratne Dilshan- cricket player
Hinduism
- Nadira Naipaul - Convert to Hinduism. The wife of Nobel prize-winning novelist Sir Vidiadhar Naipaul.
- Annapurna Devi - surbahar (bass sitar) player and music teacher in the North Indian classical tradition
- Houman Younessi - Iranian educator, practitioner, consultant and investigator in computer science, information systems, decision science, business, and systems and software engineering
- Anwar Shaikh - Pakistani born author. Passed away in November 2006.
Converted to Judaism
- Avraham Sinai - former Hezbollah intelligence officer and Israeli spy
Secular
- Wafa Sultan - secular
- Aman Tuleyev - secular
- Taslima Nasrin - secular humanist
Rationalist or free-thinker
- Younus Shaikh - rationalist and free-thinker
Undetermined current belief system but are former muslims
- Parvin Darabi
- Kateb Yacine
- Wesley Snipes
- Khalid Duran
- Afshin Ellian
- Jacques Vergès
- Ali Sina (Pseudonym), well-known for being an online critic of Islam on the Faith Freedom International web site who has contributed to a book by Ibn Warraq called Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out
References
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- Avni, Idan (2006-09-14). "A righteous man from Hizbullah land". YNetNews. Retrieved 2006-12-17.
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See also
- Apostasy in Islam
- Pseudonymity
- Criticism of Islam
- List of converts to Islam
- Religious conversion
- Apostasy