List of converts to the Bahá'í Faith from Islam

This is a List of converts to the Bahá'í Faith from Islam.

Mishkín-Qalam was a prominent Bahá'í and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th century Persia.^[1]

These were mostly people who were followers of the Bahá'u'lláh at the time he founded the Bahá'í Faith.

• Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl – foremost Bahá'í scholar who helped spread the Bahá'í Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States. One of the few Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh who never actually met Bahá'u'lláh.^[2]
• Mishkín-Qalam – prominent Bahá'í and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh, as well as a famous calligrapher of 19th century Persia.^[1]
• Táhirih – Persian poet and theologian of the Bábí faith in Iran.^[3]
• Nabíl-i-A'zam – Bahá'í historian and one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh^[4]
• Hají Ákhúnd – eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.^[5]
• Ibn-i-Abhar – appointed a Hand of the Cause, and identified as one of the nineteen Apostles of Bahá'u'lláh.^[6]
• Mírzá Mahmúd – eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í 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.
• 'Abdu'l-Karim Amín Khawja^[10] - the first native Algerian convert to the Bahá'í Faith.
• Musa Naghiyev – Azerbaijani industrial oil magnate in late 19th - early 20th century.^[11]
• Sami Doktoroglu – early and important member of the Bahá'í Faith in Turkey.^[12]

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