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) – 7th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
 * Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wife
 * 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.
 * Ka'ab al-Ahbar – 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore.
 * Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer.
 * Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations.
 * Sultan Rafi Sharif Bey (Yale Singer) – 20th-century pioneer in the development of Islamic culture in the United States.
 * Youssef Darwish – labour lawyer and activist 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.
 * Rashid-al-Din Hamadani – 13th-century Persian physician
 * Yaqub ibn Killis – 10th-century Egyptian vizier under the Fatimids.
 * Leila Mourad – Egyptian singer and actress of the 1940s and 1950s.
 * Lev Nussimbaum – 20th-century writer, journalist and orientalist.
 * Jacob Querido – 17th-century successor of the self-proclaimed Jewish Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.
 * Ibn Sahl of Seville – 13th-century Andalusian poet.
 * Harun ibn Musa – 8th-century scholar of Hadith and Qira'at, and the first compiler of the different styles of Qur'anic recitation.
 * Al-Ru'asi – 8th-century scholar of Arabic grammar and the founder of the Kufan school of grammar.
 * Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century Jewish messiah claimant who converted to Islam under threat of death from the Ottoman authorities.
 * Sabbatai Zevi – 17th-century Jewish messiah claimant who converted to Islam under threat of death from the Ottoman authorities.