Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (1875\u20131936) is well-known as one of the translators of the Holy Quran into English and a British convert to Islam. He is regarded as an orthodox, mainstream, Sunni Muslim. When Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din established the Woking Muslim Mission in England in 1913, Marmaduke Pickthall was not yet a Muslim but had become attracted to Islam. He was already well-known as a scholar and novelist. He began to take part in the activities organized by the Woking Muslim Mission. His subsequent acceptance of Islam is described in a brief report written by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din for Paigham Sulh, <\/i>the Urdu\u00a0 periodical of the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Isha\u2018at Islam Lahore.<\/p>\n
The Islamic Review<\/i> of January 1918 contains a brief report of a meeting, at the \u201cLondon Muslim House\u201d, organised by the \u201cMuslim Literary Society, on 29th November 1917. It informs us that Mr. Pickthall delivered a lecture there entitled Islam and Modernism. <\/i>The report goes on to state:<\/p>\n \u201cOpportunity was taken by the audience who crowded the lecture hall to give an ovation to Mr. Pickthall for his having declared openly a few days before his acceptance of the Faith of Islam.\u201d (p. 3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n At the link\u00a0 provided, this issue of The Islamic Review<\/i> is available online. The report is on pages 3 and 4. His speech is also published in this issue, and runs from page 5 to page 11 of the magazine.<\/p>\n