Deborah Baker (1) (1959–)

This book was supposed to be reveal why and how Margaret “Peggy” Marcus, in the mid 1960”s chose Islam as her faith, Maryam Jameelah as her name, and left her Jewish faith and New York to move to Pakistan to live the ideal Muslim faith. There she authored a number of articles and books about how the West and its culture was wrong. The book is a collection of her letters home and background on the Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi who becomes her guardian and is one of the founders of militant political Islam – Taliban. However, we never discover the real reason for the conversion, and more shockingly learn that the author changed the content of the letters so they would be more easily read. Left with the feeling that this was a troubled, unstable woman only. Disappointing.… (más)