Maryum Jameelah

Maryam Jameelah (b. May 23, 1934) is an author of over 30 books on Islamic culture and history and a prominent female voice espousing traditional Islam. Born, Margret Marcus, in New Rochelle, New York to a non-observant Jewish family, she explored Orthodox Judaism during her teens before converting to Islam in 1961. She emigrated to Pakistan in 1962, and married Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a leader in the Jamaat-e-Islami political party.
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Jameelah is a prolific author, offering a conservative defense of traditional Islamic values and culture. She is deeply critical of secularism, materialism and modernization, both in Western society, as well as in Islam. She regards traditions such as veiling, polygamy, and gender segregation (purdah) to be ordained by the Quran and words of Prophet Muhammad, and considers movements to change these customs to be a betrayal of Islamic teachings. Jammelah's books and articles have been translated into several languages including Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Bengali and Bahasa Indonesia.<ref name MCI/> Her correspondence, manuscripts, bibliographies, chronologies, speeches, questionnaires, published articles, photographs, videocassettes, and artwork are included in the Humanities and Social Sciences Library collection of the New York Public Library.<ref name NYPL/> Some of the books she has written are:
*Islam and Modernism
*Westernization and Human Welfare
*Three Great Islamic Movements in the Arab World of the Recent Past
*The Generation Gap - Its Causes and Consequences

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