The convert a tale of exile and extremism
What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celeb...
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Minneapolis, Minn. :
Graywolf Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- The marble library. al-Hijrah : the escape ; The Mawlana ; Doubt
- Jahiliyya, the age of barbarism and ignorance. The misfit ; Paagal Khanaah ; The convert
- The concrete library. The renegade ; A war between and within ; The lifted veil.
