# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maryam-jameelah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T17:00:38.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maryam-jameelah"
name: "Maryam Jameelah"
slug: "maryam-jameelah"
description: "Maryam Jameelah was an American-Pakistani author of over thirty books on Islamic culture and history and a female voice for orthodox Islam, known for her writings about the West. Born Margret Marcus in New York City to a non-observant Jewish family, she explored Judaism and other religions during her teens before converting to Islam in 1961 and emigrating to Pakistan. She was married to and had five children with Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a leader in the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan political party, and resided in the city of Lahore."
tagline: "American-Pakistani author on Islam (1934–2012)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1934-05-23"
deathDate: "2012-10-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.72
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.029016
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مريم جميلة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مريم جميله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "মরিয়ম জামিলা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maryam Jameelah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Jameelah"
    title: "Maryam Jameelah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مریم جمیله"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maryam Jameelah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Jameelah"
    title: "Maryam Jameelah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مریم جمیلہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джамила, Марьям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://skr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85_%D8%AC%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%81"
    title: "مریم جمیلہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مریم جمیلہ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump