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Keluargaku Yahudi Hidupku Untuk Islam (2000)

by Deborah Baker(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 4

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English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Ufuk

review 1: Wow,what a fascinating subject!This book tells the story of a Jewish American woman Peggy Marcus who converted to Islam when she was 27,became Maryam Jameelah and left her comfy life in America and began a new one in Pakistan,she did this to live as a true Muslim as per her account.The author Deborah Baker found archives marked as Maryam Jameelah on 4 boxes in NYPL archives,she was intrigued as this was the only Muslim name among may Christian and Jewish ones,she studied these 4 boxes,found countless letters Jameelah wrote to her parents about her life in Pakistan,also very harsh on western materialism and telling how Muslim world as large has fell prey as a whole to this materialism and only getting back to their Islamic roots will liberate Muslims from the western evil's... more grips!Her manner is very grandiose,she was adopted by a very hardline Muslim in Pakistan named Mawlana Maududi-a founder of Jammat-E-Islami party in Pakistan who believed in restoring Sharia as a law for all of Pakistan,actually didn't want Pakistan the Muslim nation at 1st as he thought British should restore the Muslim kingdom whe they left on all of the India-undivided and Muslim should rule over Hindus as they did for like 800 years b4 the English came!!This was so insulting for some 1 who's from India like me!The subjugation of Indian Hindus by Islam is a horror story of rape and conversions by sword,a very violent shameful chapter i Indian history!Thank g-d these evil people left my country with the creation of Pakistan!!Peggy/Maryam as it turns out was diagnosed a Schizophrenic!And was institutionalized in America for this!She tells about this in her letters to her parents as well,again his Pakistani family also made her institutionalized in Pakistan!Even they couldn't tolerate her nosiness in their lives!What's very strange is,even if she's a schizophrenic,her books and words are considered as authentic on the subject of Islamic rejection of the West and she is considered a best selling author in the Muslim world!I mean come on!She's a schizophrenic,means her brain is not in touch of the reality around us,that's both tragic and comic too,tragic for her works being seen as authentic and basis of Islamic rejection and many times baseless hatred of the West!Comic for the same reason as she's some 1 not being in touch with the reality yet she's accepted as some1 authentic on such a broad subject impacting Billion lives!The format of the book is very interesting as Deborah Baker has published her letters almost as they were,its mostly in this format of Jameelah's letters and Deborah had to edit them a little to make some sense of them!I loved the subject,the book and I chose to read it as I wanted to understand a Schizophrenic mind,how a grandiose paranoid mind thinks,it was an excellent study on it!The book didn't let me down!!5 Stars!
review 2: This book is incredibly interesting. The author came across archives in the New York Public Library that included letters her subject wrote in the 1960s. Her subject, known by her given name as Margaret or Peggy,a Jewish woman who later converted to Islam and became Maryem and moved from Larchmont (well, almost Larchmont), New York, to Pakistan.We are fascinated by the topic because the author is so fascinated with her. What led her to embrace Islam? The same woman who during World War II followed stories about the Holocaust and only learned of her religious background from the mean girls at school. She becomes disenchanted with Judaism - perhaps because she can find no one around her orthodox enough. But once she latches on to Islam, she never lets go. However foolhardy she may have been, she definitely knew the players in the Muslim world of the early 60s globally and sought them out. It's a fascinating story. less

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