John Nelson (convert)
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John Nelson was the earliest known Englishman to convert to Islam in the 16th century.[1][2][3] He is mentioned by the 16th century writer Richard Hakluyt in his book Voyager's Tales.
The king had there before in his house a son of a yeoman of our Queen's guard, whom the king's son had enforced to turn Turk [Muslim]; his name was John Nelson.[4]
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- ^ BBC
- ^ "From scholarship, sailors and sects to the mills and the mosques". The Guardian (Guardian News and Media Limited). 2002-06-18. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/jun/18/september11.religion. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
- ^ Islam in Britain, 1558 - 1685 by Nabil Matar (Cambridge University Press 1998)
- ^ Voyager's Tales, 3, The voyage made to Tripolis in Barbary, in the year 1584, Richard Haklyut
