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The convert : a tale of exile and extremism

Title: The convert : a tale of exile and extremism / Deborah Baker.
Author: Baker, Deborah, 1959-
Publication: Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2011.

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Description

246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

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.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243).

Awards (note)

National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2011

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.

Call Number

JFD 12-2337

ISBN

1555975828
9781555975821
9781555976279
1555976271

LCCN

2011920617

OCLC

676728653

Author

Baker, Deborah, 1959-

Title

The convert : a tale of exile and extremism / Deborah Baker.

Imprint

Minneapolis, Minn. : Graywolf Press, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-243).

Awards

National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2011

Research Call Number

JFD 12-2337

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