Claud Field

Claud Field was a British author and translator whose published work shows a remarkably wide range of interests. Surviving bibliographic records connect him with original books such as Persian Literature, Mystics and Saints of Islam, Tales of the Caliphs, With the Afghans, and Heroes of Missionary Enterprise.

He also translated important works into English, including writings by al-Ghazali, August Strindberg, Meister Eckhart, Nikolai Gogol, and Nizami. Taken together, those translations suggest a writer deeply interested in religion, literature, and the movement of ideas across languages and cultures.

One of his books describes him as a former Church Missionary Society missionary at Peshawar, which helps explain the firsthand tone of some of his writing about India and the North-West Frontier. While detailed biographical information is hard to confirm from the sources available, his body of work clearly shows a writer who introduced many readers to Persian and Islamic traditions through accessible English prose.