Editing Marmaduke Pickthall (section)

{{Short description|English Islamic scholar (1875–1936)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
| image              = File:Marmaduke Pickthall Portrait (cropped).jpg
| alt                = Marmaduke Pickthall Portrait
| image_upright      = 0.9
| caption            = 
| birth_name         = Marmaduke William Pickthall
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|df=yes|1875|04|07}}
| birth_place        = Cambridge Terrace, London, England
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1936|05|19|1875|04|07}}<ref name="British Muslim Heritage"/>
| death_place        = Porthminster Hotel, [[St Ives, Cornwall]], England
| resting_place      = [[Brookwood Cemetery]], [[Brookwood, Surrey]], England
| occupation         = [[Novelist]], [[Islamic scholar]]
| known for          = ''[[The Meaning of the Glorious Koran]]''
}}

'''Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall''' (born '''Marmaduke William Pickthall'''; 7 April 1875{{spaced ndash}}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 [[leadership|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.<ref name="British Muslim Heritage"/>