At the age of 15, she was writing a novel with a Palestinian as the hero, whose portraits she drew herself. Her alienation from America resulted in her objections to the state of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, at times making her violent (p.115). This was in 1962.Īccording to The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf Press Canada, 2011) by Deborah Baker, an autistic Maryam, who spoke complete sentences when she should have started baby talk, was probably a savant (p.90).
She took the name of ‘Maryam Jameela’ - probably in reaction to a rape she suffered in her pre-teens and to compensate for her impaired looks - and began writing to Maulana Abul Ala Maududi, arguably the greatest living Islamic scholar in the world at that time, at the recommendation of Syed Qutb of Egypt. Somewhere in the midst of all this, she embraced Islam. She was rebuffed by two colleges and finally consigned to a mental asylum. Margaret Marcus, daughter of secular-Jewish Herbert and Myra Marcus of New York, suffered from diagnosed schizophrenia.
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