Marmaduke Pickthall

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall (1875 - 1936), English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called The Meaning of the Glorious Koran. His translation of the Quran (usually anglicized as "Koran" in Pickthall's era) is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world. A convert from Christianity to Islam, Pickthall was a novelist, esteemed by D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and E. M. Forster, as well as journalists, political and religious leaders. He declared his conversion to Islam in dramatic fashion after delivering a talk on Islam and Progress on 29 November 1917, to the Muslim Literary Society in Notting Hill, West London. Pictured in The Tatler in 1904 at the time of the publication of his book, Said the Fisherman

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