Lady Evelyn Cobbold — English Wikipedia

English encyclopedia article on Evelyn Cobbold (1867-1963): her Edinburgh birth, her childhood in Algiers and Cairo, her affirmation of Islam by 1915 and the name Zainab, her 1933 Hajj as the first British-born Muslim woman pilgrim, her Pilgrimage to Mecca (1934), and her 1963 death at Inverness and burial on her Glencarron estate.

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