Mishkín-Qalam

Mishkín-Qalam

male, deceased (1912)
Baha'i Faith, FormerMuslim, Astronomer, sufi, shiraz, adrianople
Mishkín-Qalam was born in Shíráz but was a resident of Isfahán, which is where he first heard of the Bahá'í Faith. A few years later he travel...
Pai Hsien-Yung

Pai Hsien-Yung

male, 72 years old
FormerMuslim, University of Iowa, chongqing, chinese, hydraulic engineering, taiwanese
Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (born July 11, 1937) is a writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer." He was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China at...

Salih Ibn Tarif

male
Founder of religions, 11th century, arab, berber, FormerMuslim, Berghouata
"'"', establishing an independent ideology lending legitimacy to the state. Some modern Berber activists regard him as a hero for his resistance to...

Hají Ákhúnd

male, deceased (1910)
FormerMuslim, Hands of the Cause of God, Mulla, Bahá'í individuals, mullah, Mashhad
Hají Ákhúnd was born in the village of <u>Sh</u>ahmírzád, Iran. He was the son of a Mullá, and after some preliminary studies, he went to Mashha...

Mírzá Abu'L-Fadl

male, deceased (1914)
Baha'i Faith, FormerMuslim, Baha'i, iranian, turkmenistan, Bahá'í individuals
"', or "' was the foremost Bahá'í scholar who helped spread the Bahá'í Faith in Egypt, Turkmenistan, and the United States. He is one of the few...
Zulema Yoma

Zulema Yoma

female, 71 years old
Syrian, President of Argentina, FormerMuslim, Argentine women, Zulema Fátima Yoma, from La Rioja Province
Zulema Fátima Yoma is the former first lady of Argentina. A native of Nonogasta in La Rioja Province, Fatima Yoma was married for twenty-five y...
Ibn-I-Abhar

Ibn-I-Abhar

male
FormerMuslim, Baha'i Faith, Hands of the Cause of God, Bahá'í individuals, Hands of the Cause, Hand of the Cause
H&#803;ájí Mírzá Muh&#803;ammad-Taqí (d.1917) known as Ibn-i-Abhar, was an eminent follower of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, a...

Fadhma Aït Mansour

female, deceased (1967)
musician, Algerian, music album, FormerMuslim, Algerian-French, nun…Muslim converts to Catholicism
Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche is the mother of writers Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche. She was born in a Kabylie village, the i...