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Evelyn Cobbold

إيفلين كوبولد

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Scottish aristocrat and writer (1867-1963) raised partly in Algiers and Cairo who affirmed her Islam by 1915, taking the name Zainab; in 1933 she became the first British-born Muslim woman to perform the Hajj, recording it in Pilgrimage to Mecca (1934).

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Roles
writer · Traveller
Region
al-Andalus & Europe
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abdul Haq · Ahmed Lutfi al-Sayyid · Sayyid Ali al-Mirghani · Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi · Da Pusheng

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    Sources

    • Lady Evelyn Cobbold — English Wikipedia
    • Lady Evelyn Cobbold — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Lady Evelyn Cobbold — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Evelyn Cobbold — Wikidata Q2784501
    • Facey & Taylor — From Mayfair to Mecca: the Life of Lady Evelyn Cobbold
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    islam.museum contributors. “Evelyn Cobbold”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/evelyn-cobbold/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.

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