Sharifuddin Khalifa

Sharifuddin Khalifa (Also known as Sharif Idd, born December 1993) is a Tanzanian , born to a Catholic family. He is notable for converting roughly 1,000 Kenyans to Islam through his lectures.
Khalifa has gathered much attention and has also met with Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
At the age of five, he was able to speak five languages somewhat fluently (despite the fact that he was completely uneducated at the time): English, French, Italian, Swahili and Arabic.
Early life
According to his Guardian, Sharif was born into Swahili-speaking Catholic family in Arusha, north Tanzania, in December 1993: "At the age of two months he refused to suckle his mother's milk and at the age of four months he started reciting verses from the Holy Quran." Though it is likely that Sharif may have experienced Dissociative Identity Disorder at an early age which may have also caused a loss of memory; as is suggested by an event where Sharif's label of was questioned by an Imam.<ref name="Hoax"/>
 
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