page_title: List of converts to Islam from Christianity
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hierarchical_section_title: List of converts to Islam from Christianity / H
caption_attribution_description: Murad Wilfried Hofmann in Berlin during a meeting with prince Al Hasan Ben Talal
context_page_description: Mahershala Ali – American actor and first Muslim actor to win an Oscar
  Muhammad Ali – converted from Baptist to The Nation of Islam to Sunni Islam; American professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist
  Rowland Allanson-Winn, 5th Baron Headley – British soldier and peer
  Vladimir Arutyunian – failed assassin of George W. Bush, converted to Islam in prison
  Edoardo Agnelli – only son of Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist patriarch of Fiat, died at 46
  Anas Lakhani - A Prime minister son of Pakistan
context_section_description: Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet – distinguished British convert to Islam
  Omar Hammami – American-born member of the Somali Islamist paramilitary group al-Shabaab; known as Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki
  Hatice Refia Hanım – mother of Tevfik Fikret
  Joel Hayward – British scholar, author and poet
  Muhammad Robert Heft – Canadian activist and writer
  Murad Wilfred Hofmann – NATO official, converted from Catholicism
  Knud Holmboe – Danish journalist and explorer who converted from Catholicism
  Hamza Yusuf – born as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington to two academics working at Whitman College and he was raised in northern California. He grew up a practicing Greek Orthodox Christian and attended prep schools on both the east and west coasts. In 1977, after a near-death experience in a car accident and reading the Qur'an, he converted from Christianity to Islam. Yusuf has Irish, Scottish and Greek ancestry.
caption: Murad Wilfred Hofmann in Berlin
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