Martin Lings
1909
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2005
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
educated at: Magdalen College, Clifton College, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
occupation: librarian, university teacher, writer, historian, poet, philosopher
student of: Frithjof Schuon
influenced by: Frithjof Schuon
Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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