Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World

Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004327592

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.

Knights of Araby

Knights of Araby
Author: Marmaduke Pickthall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1917
Genre: Arabian Peninsula
ISBN:

Marmaduke Pickthall Reinstated

Marmaduke Pickthall Reinstated
Author: Ebtisam A. Sadiq
Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1482880342

Marmaduke Pickthall was a prolific British novelist, essayist, journalist, and short story writer who was positively received by his contemporaries for his fictional oeuvre, but is hardly known in the current literary world. Despite his obvious talents, Pickthall was unfortunately ignored when the English literary canon was formed in the mid-twentieth century. Today, he is only remembered for his conversion to Islam, his Turkish sympathies, and his translation of the Holy Quran to English in 1930. Ebtisam A. Sadiq, Naela H. Danish, and Afra S. Al-Shiban rely on extensive research of nineteenth-century British literature with the hope of reintroducing Pickthall to the literary world. In comprehensive analysis that includes the forgotten authors Eastern novels, Western tales, and collections of short stories, the researchers utilize contemporary theories of criticismparticularly postcolonialism, modern realist traditions, and feminismto scrutinize and highlight the nature of his contribution to English literature. Included are examinations of Pickthalls affiliation or withdrawal from literary traditions like Victorianism and Modernism and what exactly determines his canonical status. Marmaduke Pickthall Reinstated shares research and examinations of a forgotten authors literary works with the intent that they finally find a long overdue place in mainstream English literature.

To-day

To-day
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1918
Genre:
ISBN:

Proceedings

Proceedings
Author: Anglo-Russian Literary Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 454
Release: 1918
Genre: Russian language
ISBN:

The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland
Author: John DuVal
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2012-09-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1603849181

Swift yet resonant, this masterful new verse translation conveys the immediacy, intimacy, and power of this greatest of Old French epic poems. John DuVal approaches the unadorned syntax of The Song of Roland in straightforward modern English, attuned to the nuance and detail of the narrative and the poetry of the original text. In his concise but thorough general Introduction, David Staines traces the origins of the poem and its reception in medieval society, discusses its content and its themes, and in clear, accessible prose illuminates the epic poem’s chivalric spirit. Footnotes provide glosses on events, characters, and medieval terms. Endnotes discuss editorial and translational issues. This edition also includes a selected bibliography, a map, and a glossary and index. An appendix provides the entire text of the Old French original.