Eaton, (Horace Charles Le) Gai [names in religion Hasan ‘Abd al-Hakim, Sidi Hasan] (1921–2010), diplomatist and Muslim scholar, was born on 1 January 1921 in Lausanne, Switzerland, the son of Francis Henry Launcelot Errington (1854–1942), barrister, and Ruth Frances Muddock (1881–1973)...
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Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932), Islamic scholar and missionary
Khizar Humayun Ansari
Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932), Islamic scholar and missionary, was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India, the son of Khwaja Aziz-ud-Din. He came from a Kashmiri family with a tradition of distinguished public service: his grandfather, Abdur Rashid, was at one time the qazi (chief Muslim judge) of ...
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Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (1870–1932) by unknown photographer, 1918 Woking Muslim Mission
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Kamal-ud-Din, Khwaja (1870–1932)
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Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din (1870–1932) by unknown photographer, 1918 Woking Muslim Mission
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Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885–1960)
Maker: Harry St John Bridger Philby
Harry St John Bridger Philby (1885–1960) self-portrait, 1917–18 The Royal Geographical Society, London
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Philby, Harry St John Bridger (1885–1960), explorer and Arabist, was born at St John's, Badulla, Ceylon, on 3 April 1885, the second son of Harry Montagu Philby (d. 1913), a coffee planter, and his wife, Queenie (1864–1950), known as May, daughter of ...
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Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875–1936), writer and translator
Mohammad Shaheen
Pickthall, Marmaduke William (1875–1936), writer and translator, was born on 7 April 1875 in Cambridge Terrace, London, the eldest of the two sons of the Revd Charles Grayson Pickthall (1822–1881), rector of Chillesford in Suffolk, and his second wife, Mary Hale, née O'Brien (1836–1904)...
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Stanley, Henry Edward John, third Baron Stanley of Alderley and second Baron Eddisbury (1827–1903), diplomatist and orientalist
Muriel E. Chamberlain
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Yahya Ali Omar (1924–2008), Swahili scholar
P. J. L. Frankl
Yahya Ali Omar (1924–2008), Swahili scholar, was born in June 1924 in Mombasa, Kenya protectorate, the only son, a twin, and the youngest of three children of Ali bin Omar, fisherman, and his wife, Sudi binti Athman, both Swahili from northern Swahililand. When ...
