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A Great English Muslim: The Life and Times of Marmaduke Pickthall

A Great English Muslim: The Life and Times of Marmaduke Pickthall

Gilham, Jamie

Hardcover

IslamGeneral Asian HistoryBritish History

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 15, 2026

ISBN10: 0197873448
ISBN13: 9780197873441
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 15 2026
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.94
Height: 1.97 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
Since his death in 1936, Marmaduke Pickthall's reputation has rested on his popular English translation of the Qur'an. Drawing on a wide range of original sources, including unpublished letters and newly discovered archives, Jamie Gilham unpacks Pickthall's eventful life and significant contributions as a British Muslim writer, scholar and campaigner.

A Great English Muslim traces Pickthall's extraordinary journey to Islam and considers its profound impact on his life and work. Pickthall negotiated his British and Muslim identities to defend and explain Islam in the West and, later, globally. Gilham explores how Pickthall's Anglo-Muslim worldview, and his complex attitudes about imperialism, race and ethnicity, fueled his writing and campaigning--not least in his defense of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War; his denunciation of Western interference in the Middle East, including Palestine, after the Armistice; his alliance with Gandhi and support for Non-Cooperation and the Khilafat Movement in 1920s India; and his efforts to establish the Indian State of Hyderabad as the center of Sunni Islam and seat of the Caliphate in the 1930s.

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