Lady Evelyn Cobbold – Muslim convert

Bismillah, alhamdulillah

I found this interesting story in the Saudi Gazette about an artistocratic Scottish lady convert in the late 1800’s. She died as a Muslim at the age of 95 in 1963 having performed Hajj at the age of 65. She wrote a book called ‘Pilgrimage to Makkah’ which has been republished with the more attractive title “From Mayfair to Makkah” . She was buried at her Scottish Highlands estate in Wester Ross with an inscription of the Quran on her gravestone. The following quote describes her process of conversion:

Evelyn wrote in “Pilgrimage to Makkah” that she was often asked when and why she became a Muslim, but “I do not know the precise moment when the truth of Islam dawned on me. It seems that I have always been a Muslim.”