diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 99b66e00..3668ba73 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ gem 'rdoc', '~> 3.11'
 gem 'redgreen', '~> 1.2'
 gem 'shoulda', '~> 3.5'
 gem 'cucumber', '1.3.18'
-gem 'maruku', '~> 0.7.0'
 gem 'rdiscount', '~> 2.0'
 gem 'launchy', '~> 2.3'
 gem 'simplecov', '~> 0.9'
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown.rb b/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown.rb
index 39389874..30c7ef36 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ module Jekyll
             when 'redcarpet' then RedcarpetParser.new(@config)
             when 'kramdown'  then KramdownParser.new(@config)
             when 'rdiscount' then RDiscountParser.new(@config)
-            when 'maruku'    then MarukuParser.new(@config)
           else
             # So they can't try some tricky bullshit or go down the ancestor chain, I hope.
             if allowed_custom_class?(@config['markdown'])
@@ -29,7 +28,6 @@ module Jekyll
 
       def valid_processors
         %w[
-          maruku
           rdiscount
           kramdown
           redcarpet
@@ -39,7 +37,6 @@ module Jekyll
       def third_party_processors
         self.class.constants - %w[
           KramdownParser
-          MarukuParser
           RDiscountParser
           RedcarpetParser
           PRIORITIES
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/maruku_parser.rb b/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/maruku_parser.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 7be577c8..00000000
--- a/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/maruku_parser.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-module Jekyll
-  module Converters
-    class Markdown
-      class MarukuParser
-        def initialize(config)
-          require 'maruku'
-          @config = config
-          @errors = []
-          load_divs_library if @config['maruku']['use_divs']
-          load_blahtext_library if @config['maruku']['use_tex']
-
-          # allow fenced code blocks (new in Maruku 0.7.0)
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:fenced_code_blocks] = !!@config['maruku']['fenced_code_blocks']
-
-        rescue LoadError
-          STDERR.puts 'You are missing a library required for Markdown. Please run:'
-          STDERR.puts '  $ [sudo] gem install maruku'
-          raise Errors::FatalException.new("Missing dependency: maruku")
-        end
-
-        def load_divs_library
-          require 'maruku/ext/div'
-          STDERR.puts 'Maruku: Using extended syntax for div elements.'
-        end
-
-        def load_blahtext_library
-          require 'maruku/ext/math'
-          STDERR.puts "Maruku: Using LaTeX extension. Images in `#{@config['maruku']['png_dir']}`."
-
-          # Switch off MathML output
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:html_math_output_mathml] = false
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:html_math_engine] = 'none'
-
-          # Turn on math to PNG support with blahtex
-          # Resulting PNGs stored in `images/latex`
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:html_math_output_png] = true
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:html_png_engine] =  @config['maruku']['png_engine']
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:html_png_dir] = @config['maruku']['png_dir']
-          MaRuKu::Globals[:html_png_url] = @config['maruku']['png_url']
-        end
-
-        def print_errors_and_fail
-          print @errors.join
-          raise MaRuKu::Exception, "MaRuKu encountered problem(s) while converting your markup."
-        end
-
-        def convert(content)
-          converted = Maruku.new(content, :error_stream => @errors).to_html.strip
-          print_errors_and_fail unless @errors.empty?
-          converted
-        end
-      end
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/site/_docs/configuration.md b/site/_docs/configuration.md
index 836eed37..d24f49a8 100644
--- a/site/_docs/configuration.md
+++ b/site/_docs/configuration.md
@@ -514,14 +514,6 @@ quiet:    false
 defaults: []
 
 # Markdown Processors
-maruku:
-  use_tex:    false
-  use_divs:   false
-  png_engine: blahtex
-  png_dir:    images/latex
-  png_url:    /images/latex
-  fenced_code_blocks: true
-
 rdiscount:
   extensions: []
 
diff --git a/site/_docs/troubleshooting.md b/site/_docs/troubleshooting.md
index eb65fd40..e9a03b79 100644
--- a/site/_docs/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/site/_docs/troubleshooting.md
@@ -114,21 +114,6 @@ The various markup engines that Jekyll uses may have some issues. This
 page will document them to help others who may run into the same
 problems.
 
-### Maruku
-
-If your link has characters that need to be escaped, you need to use
-this syntax:
-
-{% highlight text %}
-![Alt text](http://yuml.me/diagram/class/[Project]->[Task])
-{% endhighlight %}
-
-If you have an empty tag, i.e. `<script src="js.js"></script>`, Maruku
-transforms this into `<script src="js.js" />`. This causes problems in
-Firefox and possibly other browsers and is [discouraged in
-XHTML.](http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_3) An easy fix is to put a space
-between the opening and closing tags.
-
 ### Liquid
 
 The latest version, version 2.0, seems to break the use of `{{ "{{" }}` in