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Marmaduke William Pickthall
Image: The Bombay Chronicle (photograph, 1920), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Marmaduke William Pickthall

مارمادوك بكثال

Notable figure 1875–1936 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 512; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 259 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record 131553542: Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875–1936)

From the United Kingdom; worked in India

Field: Translation

Affiliation

Translator; The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930)

Biography

Born in London, he learned Arabic in Syria as a young man and wrote novels about its people and later about Egypt. In 1920 he went to India to edit a Bombay newspaper, and from its first issue in 1927 he edited the journal Islamic Culture in Hyderabad. He spent years translating the meanings of the Qur'an into English, revised the work with scholars in Cairo, and published it as The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (London 1930).