This is a list of notable converts to Islam from Judaism. * Abdullah ibn Salam (Al-Husayn ibn Salam) – 6th-century companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * Safiyya bint Huyayy – Muhammad's wife * Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi (Baruch Ben Malka) – influential 12th-century physicist, philosopher, and scientist who wrote a critique of Aristotelian philosophy and Aristotelian physics. * Ka'ab al-Ahbar – 7th-century Yemenite Jew. Considered to be the earliest authority on Isra'iliyyat and South Arabian lore. * Ibn Yahyā al-Maghribī al-Samaw'al – 12th-century mathematician and astronomer. * Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) – Viennese journalist, author, and translator who visited the Hijaz in the 1930s, and became Pakistani ambassador to the United Nations. * Sultan Rafi Sharif