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Given permission to settle by local tribes after having killed a dangerous python, they converted to Islam and married local women.
Actor Robin Padilla reverted to Islam and wed his first wife, Liezl Sicangco, whilst serving a 21-year prison sentence for illegal weapons possession.
After the conversion to Islam at the beginning of the 8th century and the Maysara uprising (CE 739-742), the Barghawata Berbers formed their own state on the Atlantic coast between Safi and Salé.
Amin had been given refuge because of his conversion to Islam; after weeks of negotiation Barron secured the first interview with him since his deposition.
The same was true for the ethnic differences; the only prerequisite for an official appointment was conversion to Islam.
But Mongol power was already waning, as the Empire dissolved into civil war, and it reached a turning point in 1295, when Ghazan, the Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate, made a formal conversion to Islam when he took the throne.
It was a long process that included immigration of Arabs and Muslims from other regions, as well as gradual conversion to Islam by some of the indigenous Christian, Samaritan and Jewish population of the area.
Even after conversion to Islam they retained their Mahabharata culture by creating Gotras and Pals for marriages and social interaction.
On 29 November 1917, the poet and novelist Marmaduke Pickthall, best known for his translation of the Koran, dramatically declared his conversion to Islam after delivering a talk on 'Islam and Progress' to the Society.