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“[w]hen I embraced Islam, this meant to me not only a change of faith but even more important, a transference of my allegiance from Western to Islamic civilization.”

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Maryam Jameelah

Maryam Jameelah (1934-2012) was a prominent Pakistani-Indian Islamic writer, scholar, and thinker. Born in Allahabad, India, she later migrated to Pakistan where she became renowned for her critical analysis of Western civilization and passionate advocacy of Islamic traditional values. Throughout her life, she authored numerous books and articles exploring Islamic culture, modernity, and religious philosophy. Her works, translated into multiple languages, significantly influenced Islamic intellectual discourse and the global Islamic revival movement. She is considered one of the most influential Islamic thinkers of the late 20th century. more

“Maryam Jameelah’s significance [lies] in the manner with which she articulates an internally consistent paradigm for [Islamic] revivalism’s rejection of the West,” her entry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World reads. “In this regard, her influence far exceeds [that of] the Jamaat [e-Islami] and has been important in the development of revivalist thought across the Muslim world.”

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Book:The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

Source: The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

“Pickthall’s rendition (of Quran) remained my favourite and to this day, I have never found any other English translation that can equal it. The sweep of eloquence, the virility and dignity of the language is unsurpassed in any other translation.”

Islam Quran Hadith Maryam Jameelah Marmaduke Pickthall

Book:Why I Embrace Islam

Source: Why I Embrace Islam

“Muslim sciences should not be viewed by the scholar as a mere forerunners of modern science but as an alternative. The contemporary science of the West and the sciences developed by the Muslims are totally different and conflict with each other in aims and ideals." ~Modern Technology and Dehumanization of Man”

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Author:Maryam Jameelah

“The Devil answer'd: bray a fool in a morter with wheat, yet shall not his folly be beaten out of him; if Jesus Christ is the greatest man, you ought to love him in the greatest degree; now hear how he has given his sanction to the law of ten commandments: did he not mock at the sabbath, and so mock the sabbaths God? murder those who were murder'd because of him? turn away the law from the woman taken in adultery? steal the labor of others to support him? bear false witness when he omitted making a defense before Pilate? covet when he pray'd for his disciples, and when he bid them shake off the dust of their feet against such as refused to lodge them? I tell you, no virtue can exist without breaking these ten commandments; Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.”