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Marmaduke Pickthall, English translator of the Quran

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ScholarEnglish translator of the Quran

Marmaduke Pickthallمحمد مارمادوك بكتال

Approximate dateLondon

An English novelist who became Muslim and made one of the first English translations by a Muslim.

He declared his Islam in London in 1917 and later worked in Hyderabad for the Nizam. He took leave to consult scholars in Cairo, and published The Meaning of the Glorious Koran in 1930.

What grew out of it?

Still in print, it opened the Quran's meanings to English readers for a century.

Who else is linked?

England and Britain

Who lived at the same time?

Mehmed VAbdul Hamid IIMehmed VIAbdulmejid IIMuhammad AhmadMustafa KemalMurad VQueen Victoria

Source: history · Wikipedia

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