Marmaduke Pickthall

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Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall Portrait
Born
Marmaduke William Pickthall

(1875-04-07)7 April 1875
Cambridge Terrace, London, England
Died19 May 1936(1936-05-19) (aged 61)[1]
Porthminster Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall, England
Resting placeBrookwood Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England
Occupation(s)Novelist, Islamic scholar
Known forThe Meaning of the Glorious Koran

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall; 7 April 1875 – 19 May 1936) was an 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.[1]

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