The Muslim Literary Society, London was founded in 1916 and was based in Notting Hill

Notting Hill

Notting Hill is an area in London, England, close to the north-western corner of Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea...

, West London, with Koranic translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, FRSL was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world....

 as its president. It was sponsored by the Woking Muslim Mission

Woking Muslim Mission

The Woking Muslim Mission was founded in 1913 by Khwaja Kamal-ud-Din at the Mosque in Woking, 30 miles southwest of London and was managed by members of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement . It was run by Lahore Ahmadiyya missionaries until the mid-1960s.- Woking Mosque :The Woking Mosque was built by...

.

It is not to be confused with the American Muslim Literary Society or the Bengali Muslim Literary Society.

On 29 November 1917, the poet and novelist Marmaduke Pickthall

Marmaduke Pickthall

Marmaduke Pickthall was a Western Islamic scholar, noted as an English translator of the Qur'an into English. A convert from Christianity, Pickthall 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...

, best known for his translation of the Koran, dramatically declared his conversion to Islam after delivering a talk on 'Islam and Progress' to the Society.
There are no references to the Society after 1917.

External links

• "The historical roots of British Islam"

• "Muslims in London, Greater London Authority, October 2006"

• Islamic Society of Britain “Muslims of Britain”

"The Infidel within: Muslims from Britain since 1800", by Himayun Ansari. - Hurst, 2004 ISBN 1-850-65685-1