![]() ![]() ![]() Furthermore, this is the Pakistan of the hardcore cadres of the Jamaat-e Islami movement where she keeps strict purdah (gender seclusion) and becomes the second wife of one of Maududi's loyal followers, Muhammad Yusuf Khan. As Baker admits in the "note on methodology," she has taken considerable liberties in quoting from Jameelah's corpus of letters, juvenilia, and her many published works, so as to frame a tale told, as if in Jameelah's own voice, of her troubled and alienated youth, leading ultimately to immersion in Pakistan in the 1960s. The genre of Baker's work is, in fact, literary, rather than being a strictly historical or academic biographical study. THIS BOOK is based on the life of Maryam Jameelah, an American woman from a New York Reform Jewish family who, in 1962, after corresponding with notable Islamists thinkers of the time such as Sayyid Qutb and Abu al-Ala Maududi, converted to Islam and permanently left the West to settle in Pakistan. Illustrations, bibliographical references. The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, 2011. ![]()
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