"Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6" is a Victorian-era travelogue created by Marmaduke William Pickthall, a British writer, and traveler, a convert to the Muslim religion who translated Quaran. His love and passion for the East originated in his youth and childhood and was supported by his mother. Therefore, the book was written out of love for journeys and is very interesting. His stories are full of real-life situations, anecdotes, and truth about how people of the East are.