The convert : a tale of exile and extremism / Deborah Baker.
2011
BP170.5.M3 B35 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The convert : a tale of exile and extremism / Deborah Baker.
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ISBN
9781555975821
1555975828
1555975828
Publication Details
Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
246 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
BP170.5.M3 B35 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.5/74/092 B
Summary
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 celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West.
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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.
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.