Veiled Women

📕 Pickthall (1875-1936) was a Western Islamic scholar noted for his English translation of the Qur'an (1930). A convert from Christianity to Islam, he was a novelist esteemed by D H Lawrence, H G Wells and E M Forster, as well as a journalist, headmaster, and political and religious leader. This harem novel which tells the story of an English governess who marries the son of the Pasha, detailing life in the women's apartments of an Egyptian Pasha's house, was first published in 1913.