Maryam Jameelah was an American-Pakistani author of over thirty books on Islamic culture and history and a female voice for conservative Islam, known for her writings about the West.
10 Facts About Maryam Jameelah
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Maryam Jameelah was married to and had five children with Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a leader in the Jamaat-e-Islami political party, and resided in the city of Lahore.
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Maryam Jameelah entered the University of Rochester after high-school, but had to withdraw before classes began because of psychiatric problems.
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Maryam Jameelah was inspired by Muhammad Asad's The Road to Mecca, which recounted his journey and eventual conversion from Judaism to Islam.
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Maryam Jameelah had five children: two boys and three girls.
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Maryam Jameelah started writing her first novel, Ahmad Khalil: The Story of a Palestinian Refugee and His Family at the age of twelve; she illustrated her book with pencil sketches and color drawings.
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Maryam Jameelah's writings are supplemented by a number of audio and video tapes.
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Maryam Jameelah was deeply critical of secularism, materialism and modernization, both in Western society, as well as in Islam.
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Maryam Jameelah regarded traditions such as veiling, polygamy, and gender segregation to be ordained by the Quran and by the words of Muhammad, and considered movements to change these customs to be a betrayal of Islamic teachings.
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Maryam Jameelah's life is the subject of a book by the biographer Deborah Baker.