Martin Lings, English author and scholar (born 1909)

Martin Lings

English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher (1909–2005)

Martin Lings, 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…