English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher (1909–2005)
For the footballer and football manager, see Martin Ling.
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.
^A follower of the Alawiyya Sufi tariqa,Islamic scholar concerned with spiritual crisis
graduating from Oxford Lings went to Vytautas Magnus University, in Lithuania, where he taught Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. For Lings himself, however,...
MartinLing (born 15 July 1966) is an English football manager and former player currently director of football for Leyton Orient. He played in over 100...
(1970), p. 360 Watt(1956), p. 393 Watt(1956), p. 287 Lings (1983), p. 201 Lings (1983), p. 165 Lings (1983), p. 206 Nomani (1970), p. 345 Hamid, AbdulWahid...
for Islamic Thought, 2015), p. 79 MartinLings, Return to the Spirit (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005), p. 20 MartinLings, Mecca: From Before Genesis Until...
advocates for specific Muslim empires, nations, cities, towns, and villages. MartinLings wrote: "There is scarcely a region in the empire of Islam which has not...
Retrieved 2021-08-06. Ibn Ishaq, Sirat Rasul Allah, Mi'raj Muhammad, MartinLings, Abysinnia. etc. Quran 19:13-15 Tafseer Ibn Katheer, vol.9, p. 163, published...
and the Miracle of Zamzam". muslimhands.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-02-28. MartinLings (1983). Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Islamic Texts...
onzième heure: la crise spirituelle du monde moderne à la lumière ...", MartinLings, Pages 92, 93, 94 (fr)[4] "Le monde à l'envers: essais critiques sur...
France, and among many English-speaking communities. British scholar MartinLings wrote an extensive biography of Ahmad al-Alawi entitled A Moslem Saint...
1962, i, 127) Hughes Dictionary of Islam, Habib the Carpenter Muhammad, MartinLings, Page. 113 Hughes Dictionary of Islam, Habib the Carpenter: "Habib's...
particular, mentioned the beauty of Aaron when he encountered him in Heaven. MartinLings, in his biographical Muhammad, speaks of Muhammad's wonderment at seeing...
doi:10.1163/9789004226487_027. ISBN 978-90-04-22187-1. ISSN 1874-6691. MartinLings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second...
Hartshorne Mircea Eliade Frithjof Schuon J L Mackie Walter Kaufmann MartinLings Peter Geach George I Mavrodes William Alston Antony Flew 1970 1990 2010...
Murshid [1] See Hans Wehr's Arabic Dictionary, 4th ed., s.v. rašada. Cf. MartinLings, What is Sufism, Islamic Texts Society, Cambridge, p. 125. Portals: Religion...
of Frithjof Schuon, Suhayl Academy, Lahore, 2001, p.67. Lings & Minnaar 2007, p. xii. Lings & Minnaar 2007, p. xiii. Soares de Azevedo 2005. Roy 2003...
English scholar MartinLings notes, correctly, that Sa'd judgment accords with that of the law of Moses as recorded in Deut. 20:10:14. See Lings, p. 232 n.1...
Martin Buber (Hebrew: מרטין בובר; German: Martin Buber, pronounced [ˈmaʁtiːn̩ ˈbuːbɐ] ; Yiddish: מארטין בובער; February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an...
Hani Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne Patrick Laude Tage Lindbom MartinLings Jean-Louis Michon Seyyed Hossein Nasr Jacob Needleman Harry Oldmeadow...
Hartshorne Mircea Eliade Frithjof Schuon J L Mackie Walter Kaufmann MartinLings Peter Geach George I Mavrodes William Alston Antony Flew 1970 1990 2010...
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