Captain Jack Sparrow from the film "Pirates of the Caribbean" was inspired by the real life story of English pirate John Ward that converted to Islam & changed his name to Yusuf Raïs

"A Christian Turn'd Turk" was written about his conversion by the dramatist Robert Daborne pic.twitter.com/xhutwqEGhl

— Akbar Zab (@ZabAkbar) September 22, 2020