By Isla Rosser-Owen The Blue Plaques Scheme was started in 1867 by the Royal Society of Arts, upon…
1. Three things to admire – intellectual power, dignity, gracefulness. 2. It is better to go with truth…
In 1913, Pickthall spent several months in Turkey, where he sought to counteract the anti-Muslim agitation of the…
The circumstances which gave birth to Pickthall’s travelogue Oriental Encounters are described in the Introduction below. His manservant…
The novel concerns an English governess who converts to Islam and marries Yûsuf Bey, a young aristocrat from…
After the success of his Saïd the Fisherman, Pickthall was emboldened to attempt a novel set entirely in…
‘Or do you calculate that you will enter Paradise when there has not come to you the like…
‘O people, listen to my words, and understand the same. Know that all Muslims are brothers one to…
on the occasion of “Eid-ul-Fitr”, on the 29th June, 1919 ‘O you who believe! Be careful of your…
‘Action is the Life of all and if thou dost not Act, thou dost Nothing.’ (Gerrard Winstanley) Before…
(This essay is based on a text first given as the Annual World Humanities Lecture, University of Leicester,…
Our silence in the face of evil differs from that of secular people. For traditional theists, the sense…
Is American Islam inevitable? Until recently we scarcely asked the question. We assumed that the demography of the…
(Based on a lecture given to a conference of British converts on September 17 1997) It is said…
Were they pirates, or were they warriors for Islam? For centuries, historians have debated the significance of one…