Maryam Jameelah Quotes

“One of the most essential tasks
of modern Muslim scholarship is to distinguish genuine, useful and constructive knowledge
from pseudo-scientific, materialist theory and speculation.”
― Maryam Jameelah, Islam and Modernism

“One of the most essential tasks of modern Muslim scholarship is to distinguish genuine, useful and constructive knowledge from pseudo-scientific, materialist theory and speculation.”
― Maryam Jameelah, Islam and Modernism

“From the Islamic point of view, the question of the equality of men and women is meaningless. It is like discussing the equality of a rose and a jasmine. Each has its own perfume, colour, shape and beauty.”
― Maryam Jameelah, The Feminist Movement and the Muslim World

“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.”
― Deborah Baker, 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.”
― Maryam Jameelah, 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”
― Maryam Jameelah

“[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.”
― Maryam Jameelah