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Marmaduke William Pickthall or Muhammad Pickthall (1875-1936) was a British Muslim scholar.
Biography
Marmaduke William Pickthall was born in England in 1875.
Although lacking a formal education, he gained a reputation as a Middle-Eastern scholar by his intense traveling in the Middle East. A strong advocate of the Ottomane Empire, In the 1910s he embraced Islam and joined the Woking Muslim Mission. From 1920 to 1935 he lived in India as editor of the Bombay Chronicle. It was in India that he completed his translation of the Qur'an in 1930.
He died in England in 1936.