APOSTASY AND APOSTATES FROM JUDAISM:(Redirected from CONVERSION
TO ISLAM.) - Hebrew Expressions. - Alexandrian Apostates. - Paul
Called an Apostate. - Christian Apostates from Judaism. - AḦer
the Apostate. - Joseph of Tiberias. - In Christian Spain. - In
France. - Famous Apostates. - Maligners of Judaism. - Minor
Apostates. - Solomon Levi of Burgos. - The Burning of the
Talmud. - Joseph Pfefferkorn. - Luther's Source. - Other Eminent
Apostates. - Christian Affiliation. - Anti-Talmudical Mysticism.
- Apostates to Islam. - Enlightened Apostates to Islam. -
Outward Conversions to Islam. Terms derived from the Greek
ἀποστασία ("defection, revolt") and ἀποστάτης ("rebel in a
political sense") (I Macc. xi. 14, xiii. 16; Josephus, "Contra
Ap." i. 19, § 4), applied in a religious sense to signify
rebellion and rebels against God and the Law, desertion and
deserters of the faith of Israel. The words are used in the
Septuagint for The rabbinical language uses the following
expressions for apostate: (a) The Apostasy of