Martin Lings

Martin Lings
Abū Bakr Sirāj al-Dīn
Lings in 2001
Title	Shaykh
Personal
Born	(1909-01-24)24 January 1909 Burnage, Manchester, England
Died	12 May 2005(2005-05-12) (aged 96) Westerham, Kent, England
Religion	Islam
Era	Modern era
Creed	Sunni
Movement	Traditionalist School
Notable work(s)	Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
Alma mater	Clifton College Magdalen College, Oxford School of Oriental and African Studies
Tariqa	Shadhili
Occupation	Islamic scholar, author, Shakespearean scholar
Spouse	Lesley Smalley (1944–2005)

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^[1] 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.