Marmaduke Pickthall
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish Islamic scholar, an English translator of the Qur'an into English (1875-1936)
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall 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 is one of the most widely known and used in the English-speaking world.
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![Grave of Muhammad Pickthall in Brookwood Cemetery, inscribed with a quote from Verse 2:112 of the Quran (his translation): "Whosoever surrendereth his purpose to Allah while doing good, his
reward is with his Lord."[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Marmaduke_Pickthall_Grave_Brookwood.jpg/1280px-Marmaduke_Pickthall_Grave_Brookwood.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
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Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall 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 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.
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