Martin Lings

1909 - 2005

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship:  United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed:  ArabicEnglish
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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