Marmaduke Pickthall
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British Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English (1875–1936)
Key facts
- Born
- Marmaduke William Pickthall , ( 1875-04-07 ) 7 April 1875, Cambridge Terrace, London, England
- Died
- 19 May 1936 (1936-05-19) (aged 61) , Porthminster Hotel, St Ives, Cornwall , England
- Resting place
- Brookwood Cemetery , Brookwood, Surrey , England
- Occupations
- Novelist , Islamic scholar
- Known for
- The Meaning of the Glorious Koran
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- St Ives
- Occupation
- traveler
- Educated at
- Harrow School
- Languages spoken
- Turkish
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Marmaduke Pickthall Portrait.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1875-04-07
- date of death
- 1936-05-19
- place of burial
- Brookwood Cemetery
- madhhab
- Hanafism
- Commons category
- Marmaduke Pickthall
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
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