List of former Muslims

Ex-Muslims or former Muslims are people who have been Muslims for some part of their lives, but left Islam for another religion or a nonreligious philosophy. Following is a list of notable ex-Muslims.

Converted to an Indian religion

Converted to Buddhism

Converted to Hinduism

Harilal Gandhi converted to Islam, adopted the name "Abdullah Gandhi", but later reverted to Hinduism.[3]

Converted to a Chinese religion

Converted to an Abrahamic religion

Converted to Judaism

Converted to Christianity

Albanian monarch, Skanderbeg converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam but reverted to Roman Catholicism later in life upon his return in Albania
Italian journalist Magdi Allam converted to Roman Catholicism during the Vatican's 2008 Easter vigil service presided over by Pope Benedict XVI[60]
On St George's Day, 2005 Serbian film director Emir Kusturica left Islam and was baptised into the Serb Orthodox Church[125]
Argentine president, Carlos Menem converted to Roman Catholicism due to his political aspirations[118]
Al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef claims to have embraced Christianity while in ADX Florence Supermax prison. However, the prison staff does not believe Yousef's conversion is sincere.[188][189]
Born into a Muslim Batak family, Indonesian Prime Minister Amir Sjarifuddin converted to Christianity in 1931, upon which his fervently Islamic mother committed suicide.[199]

Converted to the Bahá'í Faith

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.[224]

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

Part of an unorganized religion or no religion

Became atheists

Javed Akhtar is a noted Indian writer and lyricist.
Former Muslim and Dutch politician Ehsan Jami was one of the two founders of the Central Committee for Ex-Muslims[228]
Kumail Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American actor.

Became Agnostics

Became Deists

Became Non-religious

Other

Religious founders

Mughal emperor Akbar proclaimed that no single religion possessed the absolute truth. This inspired him to create the Dīn-i Ilāhī in 1581.[279]
American actor Wesley Snipes converted from Christianity to Islam in 1978, but he left the faith in 1988.[291]

Undetermined current belief system

See also

Other apostasy-related lists

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