August 23, 2011 
VirtualMosque 
During the 19th century, many women, particularly Englishwomen, were fascinated by the Arab world. Most of these female travelers, like Lucie Duff Gordon, Lady Ann Blunt, Gertrude Bell, Isabelle Eberhardt and Freya Stark, to name but a few, are known to us through their impassioned travelogues.
However, one name, Lady Evelyn Cobbold (1867 – 1963) failed inexplicably to achieve a proper recognition. William Facey finally does justice to this remarkable woman, the first British Muslim woman on record to have visited the Holy Cities of Madinah and Makkah and to have written about her pilgrimage.
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Maulana Shaikh Muhammad Tufail, then Imam of the Woking Mosque, travelled to Scotland in January 1963 to perform the janaza prayers and deal with the burial of Lady Evelyn Cobbold. See his report translated by me at:
http://www.wokingmuslim.org/pers/ez_cobbold/burial.htm
See also:
http://www.wokingmuslim.org/pers/ez_cobbold/