Martin Lings

Martin Lings
Abū Bakr Sirāj al-Dīn
Lings in 2001
TitleShaykh
Personal
Born(1909-01-24)24 January 1909
Burnage, Manchester, England
Died12 May 2005(2005-05-12) (aged 96)
Westerham, Kent, England
ReligionIslam
EraModern era
CreedSunni
MovementTraditionalist School
Notable work(s)Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
Alma mater
TariqaShadhili
OccupationIslamic scholar, author, Shakespearean scholar
SpouseLesley 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.

  1. ^ A follower of the Alawiyya Sufi tariqa,Islamic scholar concerned with spiritual crisis

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