Margaret Smith (born 18 February 1961) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh West since 1999. She is the Scottish Liberal Democrats' Chief Whip and Local Government and Transport Spokesperson.
Margaret Smith is a four-time Emmy Award winning standup comic, actor, writer, and producer originally from suburban Illinois. She is known for her deadpan and often acerbic delivery. Smith currently writes and produces for The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She recently published her first book, a partial memoir about becoming a single mother, entitled, What Was I Thinking.
Smith has won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comedian, starred in her own special for Comedy Central and has produced and starred in her own independent projects. She has published her own CD titled As It Should Be which has a liner note from Jay Leno who writes, “The best comedians are the ones that write and perform their own material and Margaret Smith is at the top of that list”.
Margaret D. Smith (born 1958 in Norfolk, Virginia) is a poet, musician and artist.
Her books of poetry and nonfiction include Barn Swallow (2006), The Seed in Me (2001), Made With Love (1998), A Holy Struggle: Unspoken Thoughts of Hopkins (1992, 1994), Journal Keeper (1992, 1993), and The Rose and the Pearl (1982).
Smith is a frequent guest lecturer on Gerard Manley Hopkins, poetry writing for children, journal keeping as a spiritual practice, and the combination of the arts, such as poetry and collage. Her work in collage and glass art has appeared in galleries in Seattle.
Margaret Smith (born 1884) was a female scholar writing on early Christian and Muslim mysticism from an openminded Christian perspective. She was the first westerner to chronicle the lives of the Sufi mystic Rábi'a of Basra and compiled brief histories of other Sufi teachers and their doctrines, translating Arabic and Persian texts to English.
She counted among her mentors Thomas Walker Arnold, Alfred Guillaume, R. A. Nicholson, Louis Massignon.
Her writings were contemporary with those of Miguel Asin Y Palacios, another Christian author writing on Islam and Sufism (Ibn Arabi and "Christianised Islam") who as a giant scholar did not dwarf her; indeed in their work they complemented each other admirably.
In the 1970's four of her works - by then hard to come by - were reprinted in Amsterdam, by the Philo Press in arrangement with The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London.
