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Marmaduke Pickthall

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. Read more on Wikipedia

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English Islamic scholar (1875–1936)

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There is very little trace of Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall in my family. During my childhood that branch of our family tree was somewhat overshadowed by the other side of the family, which had an element of scandal about it. My Jewish grandmother had run away from the synagogue to marry a Catholic man, so that’s where the focus tended to be.

I do remember as a child occasions when I would pick up the house phone before my parents got to it, and have a conversation with the adult on the other end. Often at some point they would ask me whether I was related to Marmaduke Pickthall, to which I would reply that I was. Even at an early age I knew that I was in some way connected to him, because of the row of books with that distinctive name on the spines that lay out of reach but not out of sight, on the top row of my father’s bookshelf.

Peter Clark, Marmaduke Pickthall: British Muslim, revised edition, Beacon Books, London, 2016; originally published by Quartet Books, London, 1986.

I also have an early memory of sitting with my father watching television. It was the Michael Parkinson show, and ‘Parky’ was interviewing satirist Barry Humphries in his Dame Edna Everage alter ego. He asked Dame Edna what ‘her’ favourite writer was, and upon Edna replying ‘Pickthall, Marmaduke Pic