Editing Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (section)

==Spiritualism==
During the years following the First World War, ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī's name reappeared within the spiritualistic movement in the United Kingdom. He was introduced to the public by the Irish medium [[Eileen J. Garrett]], the author [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]] and the spiritualist R.H. Saunders and became known by the name Abduhl Latif, the great Arab physician. He is said to have acted as a control of mediums until the mid-1960s (Joosse, Geest, 221–9). The Bodleian Library (MS Pococke 230) and the interpretation of the Videans (Zand-Videan, 8–9) may also have prompted the whimsical short-story ‘Ghost Writer’, as told to [[Tim Mackintosh-Smith]], in which ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī speaks in the first person.