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The Convert: A Tale Of Exile And Extremism (2011)

by Deborah Baker(Favorite Author)

3.14 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1555975828 (ISBN13: 9781555975821)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Graywolf Press

review 1: كتاب جميل جدا. لا يحكي الكتاب عن السبب الذي جعل مريم تختار الإسلام و تنبذ حياتها السابقة حيث كانت يهودية أمريكية. بل يحكي عن قصة فتاة وصراعتها الداخلية وتناقضتها تفتح زاوية على نشئة فكر المنظمة الإسلامية و أثره فيما بعد في تغذية الفكر المتشدد عن طريق غير مباشر تحاول فيه الكاتبة فهم شخصية مريم و أبو الأعلى المدودي من خلال رسائلهما و أحداث حياتهما كما أورداها في كتبهما. الترجمة جميلة استمتعت بها
review 2: This is the story of a psychologically tro... moreubled woman who embraced Islam in the early 1960s. I found the book easily "put-downable," perhaps because Maryam Jameelah (nee Margaret Marcus) is portrayed as an inherently unsympathetic woman; distanced from her secular American Jewish family and eventually alienated from her Pakistani family associations, there seems to have been little to love except her schizophrenic zeal. She embraced a Pakistani life in purdah for reasons that seemed to have little to do with a love of her adopted family, or knowledge of Islam, and more to do with a jejune and Islamically prescient anti-Americanism. Pakistani publishers mysteriously accepted her as an "authority" on Islam. She had no academic background and could not even read classical Arabic, but she was vociferous in her anti-Western bias, sadly, that seems to have been enough to give her authority. less

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