![]() Sidelined, misunderstood, she would only be truly free among those who would be Muslims like her-not only religious, but uncompromising in their social and political vision.īaker writes carefully, and magnificently in parts, about their lives and thinking to trace how they came to overlap. Women received neither respect nor dignity in her supposedly free world their immodesty went deeply against the true order of social justice. She detested Zionism for its persecution of Palestinian Arabs and thought that an over-reliance on technology had dehumanized the West. Mawdudi’s vision of an all-conquering, all-encompassing Islam was echoed in this young American’s ideas. ![]() Marcus and Mawdudi had exchanged letters in which, to Mawdudi’s gratified surprise, they seemed to discover a near-total philosophical sympathy with each other. ![]() ![]() In 1962, she travelled to Pakistan to become the ward of Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami party and an early advocate of the Sharia-ruled Islamic state, an ideal that would influence religious Muslim movements around the world. Margaret Marcus was born in 1934 to a Jewish-American family in New York. ![]()
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