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Mary Shelly

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” From 1797 t...

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Agatha Christie

  “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certain...

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Omar Sharif

  Born Michel Dimitri Chalhoub, the three-time Golden Globe-winning actor converted to Islam in 1955 to marry Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, whom he ...

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Muhammad Ali

  Legendary heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali – born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky – converted to Islam in the 1960s and was a devo...

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Shaquille O’Neal

  Shaquille O’Neal played for six different teams over the course of his 19-year NBA career, most notably the Orlando Magic, the L.A. Lakers an...

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Irrfan Khan

  Indian actor Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan, known professionally as Irrfan Khan or just Irrfan, appeared in a number of major Hollywood and Bollywood f...

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Mahershala Ali

  Ali converted to Islam in 2000. During the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards, the “Moonlight” star gave a passionate speech about the imp...

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Raekwon

The American rapper converted to Islam in 2009. Raekwon, born Corey Woods, was asked by GQ in 2017 if he was keeping up with news of the Trump admini...

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Aasif Mandvi

The “Evil” star told The Hollywood Reporter, “I grew up as a Muslim, but I’ve been in more bars than mosques in my life.̶...

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DJ Khaled

  The Grammy Award-winning music producer is proud to be Muslim. “It’s life for me. I was born Muslim, my family raised me Muslim. ItR...

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