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* ] – former Indian actress and an erstwhile fashion model; converted to ] during the last years of her life, and was baptised in a ] ] at ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_PASTISSUES2&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=TOIM/2007/11/20&ID=Ar00700 |title=Church completes 125 years |work=The Times of India |date=20 November 2007 |accessdate=6 October 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Parveen-Babi-wanted-Christian-last-rites/articleshow/999295.cms|title='Parveen Babi wanted Christian last rites' |work=The Times of India |date= 23 January 2005|accessdate=6 October 2012}}</ref>

* ] – Roman Catholic saint from ], Sudan<ref name="Hutchison, p.7">Hutchison, p. 7</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei |last=Hutchison |first=Robert A. |year=1999 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location= |isbn=0312193440 |page=7 }} – "Sister Josephine Bakhita had been converted by force to Islam and then, freedom restored, had chosen Christianity".</ref>
* ] – ] prisoner in the ], 1994-96<ref name="muslimchristian">{{cite news|last1=Rodis|first1=Rodel|title=Sarah Balabagan, from Muslim to Christian|url=http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20090408-198517/Sarah-Balabagan-from-Muslim-to-Christian|accessdate=10 February 2016|publisher=Global Nation|date=8 April 2009|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715232811/http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view/20090408-198517/Sarah-Balabagan-from-Muslim-to-Christian|archivedate=15 July 2015}}</ref>
* ] – American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who drew international attention in 2009 when she ran away from home and claimed that her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to Christianity<ref name="MHrprt">{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1233680.html |title=Fla. police: No credible threat to runaway convert, AP |publisher=miamiherald.com |date=14 November 2009 |accessdate=16 February 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref> * ] – American teenager of Sri Lankan descent who drew international attention in 2009 when she ran away from home and claimed that her Muslim parents might kill her for having converted to Christianity<ref name="MHrprt">{{cite news|url=http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1233680.html |title=Fla. police: No credible threat to runaway convert, AP |publisher=miamiherald.com |date=14 November 2009 |accessdate=16 February 2012}}{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* ] – head of ] Tribe in Iraqi ] and older brother of ], Kurdish nationalist leader; announced his conversion to Christianity in 1931 during the anti-government uprising<ref>''The Kurdish Minority Problem'', p.11, December 1948, ORE 71-48, ] "The first of the major Barzani revolts took place in 1931 after Sheikh Ahmed Barzani, one of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in ], announced his conversion to Christianity and succeeded in defeating a number of other Kurdish tribes as well as regular Iraqi troops." .</ref> * ] – head of ] Tribe in Iraqi ] and older brother of ], Kurdish nationalist leader; announced his conversion to Christianity in 1931 during the anti-government uprising<ref>''The Kurdish Minority Problem'', p.11, December 1948, ORE 71-48, ] "The first of the major Barzani revolts took place in 1931 after Sheikh Ahmed Barzani, one of the most prominent Kurdish leaders in ], announced his conversion to Christianity and succeeded in defeating a number of other Kurdish tribes as well as regular Iraqi troops." .</ref>
* ] – Lebanese ] who ruled ] in the first half of the 19th century; converted from ] to ]<ref></ref><ref name="Khairallah83">Khairallah 1996, p. 83.</ref><ref name="Harris134">Harris 2012, p. 134.</ref>
* ] – Khan of ]<ref name=autogenerated1 /> * ] – Khan of ]<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* ] – ] officer of ] origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia<ref>{{cite book |title=Peter the Great |last=Massie |first=Robert K. |year=1981 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=Soviet Union |isbn=0345298063 |page=469 }}</ref> * ] – ] officer of ] origin who led the first Russian military expedition into Central Asia<ref>{{cite book |title=Peter the Great |last=Massie |first=Robert K. |year=1981 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=Soviet Union |isbn=0345298063 |page=469 }}</ref>
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* ] – ] former Muslim who lives in France since 1961; baptized Roman Catholic in 1970; in the 1990s, he founded Our Lady of Kabyle, a French website devoted to evangelisation among Muslims<ref>http://www.maghrebchristians.com/2012/08/12/algerian-muslim-convert-talks-about-christ/#ixzz247YeaG8y</ref> * ] – ] former Muslim who lives in France since 1961; baptized Roman Catholic in 1970; in the 1990s, he founded Our Lady of Kabyle, a French website devoted to evangelisation among Muslims<ref>http://www.maghrebchristians.com/2012/08/12/algerian-muslim-convert-talks-about-christ/#ixzz247YeaG8y</ref>
* ] – ]-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith<ref></ref> * ] – ]-American activist, convert to Islam from Christianity; but later returned to his Christian faith<ref></ref>
* ] – ] Emperor (from Christianity to Islam back to Christianity)<ref name=Woodfork01a>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.ie/books?id=7SEWjJ0_w2oC&pg=PR18&dq=Bokassa+Islam&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ln3cUteVHcKv7AaSzgE&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Bokassa%20Islam&f=false
|title=Culture and Customs of the Central African Republic|publisher=]|author=]|page=xviii (Chronology)
| year=2006|isbn=0313332037|accessdate=20 January 2014|quote=October 20, 1976: Bokassa announces his conversion to Islam ... December 4, 1976: ... Bokassa renounces Islam}}</ref><ref name=Titley01a>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.ie/books?id=kEPbRmivj7IC&pg=PA79&dq=Bokassa+Islam&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ln3cUteVHcKv7AaSzgE&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Bokassa%20Islam&f=false |title=Dark Age: The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa|publisher=]|author=]|page=79| year=2002|isbn=0773524185|accessdate=20 January 2014|quote=The ace up ]'s sleeve was his oil money. ... Bokassa, of course, was rewarded more than all the others, collecting a cheque for one million U.S. dollars.}}</ref>
* ] – Beninese banker and politician who has been President of Benin since 2006;<ref></ref> originally from a Muslim family; is now an ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afrol.com/articles/18536 |title=Yayi Boni is Benin's next President |publisher=Afrol.com |date=}}</ref> * ] – Beninese banker and politician who has been President of Benin since 2006;<ref></ref> originally from a Muslim family; is now an ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afrol.com/articles/18536 |title=Yayi Boni is Benin's next President |publisher=Afrol.com |date=}}</ref>
* ] – Khan of ] from 1627 to 1679;<ref name=autogenerated1 /> was forced to convert to Christianity by Russian forces following the ]<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>{{TES|Säyed Borhan xan/Сәет Борһан хан}}</ref> * ] – Khan of ] from 1627 to 1679;<ref name=autogenerated1 /> was forced to convert to Christianity by Russian forces following the ]<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref>{{TES|Säyed Borhan xan/Сәет Борһан хан}}</ref>

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Contents

Converts to Christianity from Islam
Total population
10.2 million according to 2015 study

A

B

C

Constantine the African was a physician who converted to Christian-Catholicism from Sunni Islam.

D

E

F

  • Rima Fakih – Lebanese-American actress, model, professional wrestler and beauty pageant titleholder; Miss USA 2010; converted to Maronite Christianity
  • Donald Fareed – Iranian televangelist and minister
  • Hazem FarrajPalestinian-American writer, minister, and televangelist
  • Mary Fillis

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H

I

J

  • Sabatina James (born 1982) – born in Dhedar, Pakistan; Austrian-Pakistani book author; started a new life in Vienna, changing her name and converting to Catholicism; baptized in 2006
  • Esther John – born to a Pakistani Muslim family; converted to Christianity; became a nurse to rural communities in Northern India and was later murdered
  • Mario Joseph – born into a Muslim family in Kerala, India, he became a notable Imam before the age of 18, but subsequently converted to Catholicism whereupon he was tortured and forced to flee to Europe
  • Lina JoyMalay convert from Islam to Christianity; born Azlina Jailani in 1964 in Malaysia to Muslim parents of Javanese descent; converted at age 26; in 1998, she was baptized, and applied to have her conversion legally recognized by the Malaysian courts
  • Don Juan of Persia (1560–1604) – late 16th- and early 17th-century figure in Iran and Spain; also known as Faisal Nazary; was a native of Iran, who later moved westward; settled in Spain where he became a Roman Catholic

K

L

Imad ud-din Lahiz was an Islamic writer, preacher and Quranic translator, who converted to Christianity from Islam.

M

Sake Dean Mahomed was a traveller, surgeon and entrepreneur who converted to Christianity from Sunni Islam.

N

  • Youcef Nadarkhani – Iranian Christian pastor who has been sentenced to death for apostasy
  • Diana Nasution – Indonesian singer, converted to Protestantism after marriage
  • Aurelius and Natalia (died 852) – Christian martyrs who were put to death during the reign of Abd ar-Rahman II, Emir of Córdoba, and are counted among the Martyrs of Córdoba; Aurelius was the son of a Muslim father and a Christian mother. He was also secretly a follower of Christianity, as was his wife Natalia, who was also the child of a Muslim father.
  • Marina NematCanadian author of Iranian descent and former political prisoner of the Iranian government; born into a Christian family, she converted to Islam in order to avoid execution but later reverted to Christianity
  • Ibrahim NjoyaBamum king; back and forth conversions from Islam to Christianity
  • Nunilo and Alodia – 9th-century sisters recognized as Catholic saints and martyrs in Moorish Spain, executed for apostasy for converting to Christianity
  • Rashid NurgaliyevRussian politician and general convert to Russian Orthodoxy

O

  • Malika OufkirMoroccan writer and daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir; she and her siblings are converts from Islam to Catholici; and she writes in her book, Stolen Lives, "we had rejected Islam, which had brought us nothing good, and opted for Catholicism instead"

P

Q

  • Nabeel Qureshi – former Ahmadiyya Muslim; converted to Evangelical Christianity in 2005; has since become an internationally recognized apologist with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries

R

S

Queen Nazli Sabri of Egypt, who converted to Christian-Catholicism from Sunni Islam

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Z

  • Zaida of Seville – born an Iberian Muslim; was forced to convert to Christianity; when Seville fell to the Almoravids, she fled to the protection of Alfonso VI of Castile, becoming his mistress, converting to Christianity and taking the baptismal name of Isabel
  • Zayd Abu Zayd – the last Almohad governor of Valencia, Spain; remained a loyal ally of James I; in 1236 he converted to Roman Catholicism, adopting the name of Vicente Bellvis, a fact which he kept secret until the fall of Valencia
  • Saye Zerbo – President of the Republic of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso)

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