Marmaduke Pickthall and Abdullah Philby were Englishmen of distinction and courage who travelled widely in the Muslim world and came to love and admire what they found. They became vocal dissenters of their Governemnt's policies and it is possible to view some of the great dramas of the time through their eyes the intrigues of World War 1, the emergence of new nations in the Middle East the forebordings with the zionist prject in Palestine.

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