Marmaduke Pickthall : Islam and the modern world / edited by Geoffrey P. Nash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nash, Geoffrey P., Editor.

Contributor:

Nash, Geoffrey.

Series:

Muslim Minorities 21.

Muslim minorities ; V. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pickthall, Marmaduke, 1875-1936.

Pickthall, Marmaduke.

Muslims--Great Britain--Biography.

Muslims.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston Brill 2016

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, supporter of the Khilafat movement, and editor of the journal Islamic Culture under the patronage of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors are: Humayun Ansari, Adnan Ashraf, James Canton, Peter Clark, Ron Geaves, A.R. Kidwai, Faruk Kokoglu, Andrew C. Long, Geoffrey P. Nash, M. A. Sherif and Mohammad Siddique Seddon.

Contents:

Introduction: Pickthall, Islam and the Modern World / Geoffrey P. Nash

Pickthall and the British Muslim Community

Pickthall, Muslims of South Asia, and the British Muslim Community of the Early 1900s / K. Humayun Ansari

Marmaduke Pickthall and the British Muslim Convert Community / Jamie Gilham

Abdullah Quilliam (Henri De Léon) and Marmaduke Pickthall: Agreements and Disagreements between Two Prominent Muslims in the London and Woking Communities / Ron Geaves

Pickthall’s Religious and Political Thought

Pickthall’s Anti-Ottoman Dissent: The Politics of Religious Conversion / Mohammad Siddique Seddon

Pickthall’s Islamic Politics / M.A. Sherif

Pickthall, Ottomanism, and Modern Turkey / Geoffrey P. Nash

Man of Letters, Traveller and Translator

Oriental Eyes, or Seeing and Being Seen: Popular Culture and the Near Eastern Fiction of Marmaduke Pickthall / Andrew C. Long

A Vehicle for the Sacred: Marmaduke Pickthall’s Near Eastern Novels / Adnan Ashraf

Becoming Woman and Gender Typologies in Marmaduke Pickthall’s Oriental Fiction / Faruk Kökoğlu

“Throwing Off the European”: Marmaduke Pickthall’s Travels in Arabia 1894–96 / James Canton

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall’s English Translation of the Quran (1930): An Assessment / A.R. Kidwai.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9789004327597

9004327592

OCLC:

987449683

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004327597 DOI