In Oriental Encounters, Mr. Pickthall relives hie earlier manhood's discovery of Arabia and sympathetic encounters with the Eastern mind. He is one of the few travellers who really bridges the racial gulf.

For the first time, in one, book, are the three most popular English translations of the Qur'an: the ones by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Muhammad Habib Shakir. Two of them, Abdullah Yusuf Ali and Muhammad Habib Shakir are Arabic scholars

In 1896 Marmaduke Pickthall arrived in Palestine and spent the next couple of years in native dress wandering the hinterlands. English expatriates were alarmed the young man had gone native, but Marmaduke was having the time of his life.He said When I read The Arabian Nights I see the daily life of Damascus, Jerusalem, Aleppo, Cairo, and the other cities as I found it in the early nineties of last century. What struck me, even in its decay and poverty, was the joyousness of that life compared with anything that I had seen in Europe. The people seemed quite independent of our cares of life,...

"Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria 1894 to 1896" from Marmaduke Pickthall. Western Islamic scholar (1875-1936).

"The Valley of the Kings" from Marmaduke Pickthall. Western Islamic scholar (1875-1936).