Title: The convert
Description: 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.
Subjects: Converts to Islam, Correspondence, Muslim converts, Biography, Muslim women, Muslimin, Muslim converts from Judaism, Konversion, Women, pakistan, Women, united states, biography, Muslims, united states, Violence, Islam and politics, Islamic fundamentalism
Places: United States, Pakistan, Lahore
People: Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi (1903-1979), Maryam Jameelah (1934-)