written by kristiane backer who used to be a MTV presenter and imran khan's squeeze before he met jemima--and famously set his kensington flat ablaze--and is now a muslimah.
I have not heard of such perrenialist tendencies but I may be wrong. I finally found an obituary: http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-1029/i.html
I have deleted the link I posted earlier, as there were staunch khawarij type deobandi wahhabi links in it
The famous English convert Charles Le Gai Eaton died recently. inna lillaha wa inna ilayhi rajioon. He wrote many books such as Islam and the Destiny of Man and was a friend of Martin Lings. I am surprised by the lack of coverage on Islamic forums.