and Committee of Union and Progress
(cup) 97, 122, 141, 143
Conservative background and imperial be-
liefs 5, 23, 24, 25, 29, 39, 93, 99, 144–45
conversion to Islam, Muslim convert 1, 2,
5, 6, 34–5, 47, 49, 53, 56–7, 75, 100, 201
Disraelian 13, 45, 50, 54, 67, 141, 200
envoy of Nizam of Hyderabad (to arrange
marriage son’s marriage) 128–131
at the First Round Table Conference (on
India) 127
Freemason 93
Ghazalian influence on Pickthall’s
fiction 188–93
Imam, at London Muslim Prayer House
and Woking Mosque 9, 35, 57, 58,
59–60, 100, 102–03
and India 5, 15, 23, 27, 45–6, 63
“Islam and Modernism” lecture 56–7
“Islam and Progress” articles 35, 56
Islamic Culture – editor, contributor to 2,
6, 10, 65, 66, 125, 132, 151
Islamic politics 11, 13, 35–6
Islamic Review – editor, contributor to
10, 35, 41, 55–6, 57, 59, 62–3, 67, 117
and Khilafat movement 15, 37–8, 61–2,
65, 139, 232
visit to Istanbul 121, 140
letters viii, 139
life, summary 2
and London Mosque Fund 58–9
“loyal enemy” sobriquet 1, 13, 52, 132–34,
138–39
his Muslim faith 8, 91, 100, 104
Muslim Outlook and Islamic Information
Bureau – manager of 42–3, 61–2, 87,
100, 110, 114
New Age, contributor to 10, 14, 35, 50, 56,
137, 139
and One Thousand and One
Nights 186–87
and Ottoman Empire 24, 27, 79, 81, 84,
92, 98
his Orientalism 44–5, 99, 147–50
pro-Ottoman (Turk) activity 29, 33, 35,
39, 53, 93, 137
and Paris Peace Conference 106, 108–09,
Quran translation 1, 3, 6, 17–18, 65, 126and South Asian (Indian) Muslims 23,
26, 28–9, 30, 33–4, 36, 38, 41–4
travels as a young man in Egypt and
Syria vii, 4, 12, 24, 49, 75, 137, 219–30
and Turkey, Turks 1, 27, 45, 95, 144,
207–12
and Suffolk 2, 43, 57
and Young Turks, Young Turk revolu-
tion 2, 5, 27, 33, 35, 82, 84, 98, 139, 150
writer of oriental fiction 15–16, 63–4, 91,
147–48, 157–171, 177–180, 182–84
Pickthall, Rudolf x, 64, 67
Pickthall, Sarah x, xiii, 133
Pinker, J.B. 186–87
Pittard, Eugene 154
Pond House vii
Pratt, Mary Louise 176
Prophet Muhammad xi, 31, 55, 56, 58, 98,
134, 200, 209, 237, 239–41
Protestant missionaries 2, 4, 5, 92, 101, 164,
198, 201, 218, 224, 233Qawmiyyah, nationalism (Arabic) 14, 98
Quilliam, Robert Ahmed 52, 54, 103
Quilliam, W.H. Abdullah (Henri Mustapha de
Léon) xii, 31, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55,
56, 57, 58, 62, 67, 72–5, 77–86,
103, 151
Quran, English translations of 17–18, 231–6
see also Pickthall, MarmadukeReading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age
of Mass Publication, 1880–1930 xii, 224
“The Reform of Muslim Society, by the late
Prince Saïd Halim Pasha” 125
Reid, Donald Malcolm 164
Rodwell, J.M. 17, 232,
Ross, Alexander 233
Royal Central Asian Society 67
Rudkin, Dorothy x
Russia 38, 54, 76, 79, 153–54
The Russian Revolution 154
Ruthven, Malise xiSadr-ud-Din, Maulvi, Imam of Woking
Mosque 31, 41, 58
Sabaheddin, Prince 149
Said, Edward ix, 137, 138, 224, 225Index 253