Martin Lings Writer

Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abu Bakr Siraj ad-Din, was an English writer and scholar, a student of Frithjof Schuon and a Shakespearean scholar. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print.

Personal facts

Birth date	January 24, 1909
Birth name	Martin Lings
Birth place	Manchester , Burnage
Nationality	British people
Date of death	May 12, 2005
Place of death	Kent , Westerham
Education	Clifton College Magdalen College Oxford SOAS University of London