Shabbetai+Sevi

Sabbatai Zevi ( August 1, 1626 – c. September 17, 1676 )

Was a Sephardic Rabbi and kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement. At the age of forty, he was forced by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed IV to convert to Islam. Some of his followers also converted to Islam, about 300 families.

He converted to Islam, supposedly to escape execution.