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. Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – ), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, scholar, and philosopher. The book has been published in 12 languages and has received numerous awards, including acknowledgment as best biography of the prophet in English at the National Seerate Conference in Islamabad.

It represents the final updates made to the text before the authors death in 2005. This revised edition includes new sections detailing the prophets expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. Scrupulous and exhaustive in its fidelity to its sources, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is presented in a narrative style that is easily comprehensible, yet authentic and inspiring in its use of language, reflecting both the simplicity and grandeur of the story it tells. Based on the sira, the eighth- and ninth-century Arabic biographies that recount numerous events in the prophets life, it contains original English translations of many important passages that reveal the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. In 1990, after the book had attracted the attention of Azhar University, the author received a decoration from president Mubarak.Martin Lings, formerly Keeper of Oriental Manuscript in the British Museum and the British Library, is the author of three works on Islamic mysticism, A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century, What is Sufism? and The Book of Certainty.Martin Lings biography of Muhammad is an internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet. Review This work is widely recognized as the most readable account of the life of the.

This book was given an award by the government of Pakistan, and selected as the best biography of the Prophet in English at the National Seerat Conference in Islamabad in 1983. Muhammad His Life Based On The Earliest Sources Martin Lings. The result is a book which will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time. He has adopted a style which is at once extremely readable and reflects both the simplicity and grandeur of the story. Martin Lings has an unusual gift for narrative. Based on Arabic sources of the eighth and ninth centuries, of which some important passages are translated here for the first time, it owes the freshness and directness of its approach to the words of men and women who heard Muhammad speak and witnessed the events of his life. Martin Lings' life of Muhammad is unlike any other. Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language.

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