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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
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Lings' internationally acclaimed, comprehensive, and authoritative account of the life of the prophet incorporates important additions about the prophet's expanding influence and his spreading of the message of Islam into Syria and its neighboring states. It represents the final updates made to the text before the author's death in 2005.
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What is Sufism?
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Martin Lings provides an excellent and authoritative introduction to the mystical movement of the Sufis based on his lifelong interest in Islamic culture. His explanation derives from a profound understanding of Sufism, and extends to many aspects which are usually neglected. His illuminating answer to 'What is Sufism?' gives a taste of the very ...
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Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions
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Martin Lings
This book strikes at the root of almost everything that makes it difficult for the present-day Westerner to believe whole-heartedly in religion, and in doing so it shows modern man to be the embodiment of superstition in its most dangerous form. We are faced in the modern world with a situation similar to that in the fable of the Emperor's new ...
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A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad Al-'Alawi, His Spiritual Heritage & Legacy
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The Sacred Art of Shakespeare: To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things
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Martin Lings, H R H Charles the Prince of Wales (Foreword by)
Reveals the full scope of Shakespeare's plays as sacred visionary dramas, illuminating the bard's greatest works and the man behind them. Author Martin Lings reveals how, through the use of esoteric symbol and form, Shakespeare's plays mirror the inner drama of the journey of all souls.
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A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad Al-Alawi
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Martin Lings
'Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages': this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the first edition of the book. According to the "Journal of Near Eastern Studies," it is 'one of the most thorough and intimately engaging books on Sufism to be produced by a Western scholar'. Certainly there ...
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East and West
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Rene Guenon, Martin Lings (Translator)
In East and West Gunon diagnoses the fundamental 'abnormality' of Western civilization vis--vis the traditional civilizations of the East, suggests avenues by which the West might be 're-oriented' toward the fundamental metaphysical principles it has largely abandoned, and outlines the possible role of a restoration of true intellectuality in this ...
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The Book of Certainty,
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Siraj Ed-Din, Martin Lings
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Book of Certainty: The Sufi Doctrine of Faith, Vision & Gnosis
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Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din, Martin Lings
'To express in the language of Sufism, that is, Islamic mysticism, some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions'--this is the book's avowed purpose. It came into being because the author was asked by a friend to set down in writing what he considered to be the most important things that a human being can know. He was also ...
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Symbol & Archetype: A Study in the Meaning of Existence
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Martin Lings
With reference to the great religions of the world, particularly to Christianity and Islam, symbolism is defined in a renewed consciousness that everything--numbers, elements, senses, and colors--has a vertical dimension that gives it a divine significance.
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The Eleventh Hour: The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern World in the Light of Tradition and Prophecy
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Martin Lings
- This new and expanded edition includes an appendix concerning the recent apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Portugal and Spain. - It includes analysis of the remarkable 12th-century 'Prophecy of the popes' according to which the end of this cycle of time can be determined. - Analysis of the negative and positive aspecs of the modern world in the ...
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The Secret of Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Window Into the Soul: The Mystical Wisdom in Shakespeare's Characters
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Martin Lings, HRH the Prince of Wales (Foreword by)
Shakespeare's plays, argues Lings, concern far more than the workings of the human psyche; they are sacred, visionary works that, through the use of esoteric symbol and form, mirror the passage the soul must make to reach its final sacred union with the divine.
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Splendors of Qur'an Calligraphy & Illumination
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Martin Lings
The finest examples of this distinctive Islamic art form ever published. Within three centuries of its advent, Islam had produced an architecture and a calligraphic art, including that of illumination, that have seldom been equaled and never surpassed, the one centered on the Mosque and the other on the Qur'an. But whereas Islamic architecture is ...
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The Quranic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination
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Fundamental Symbols: The Universal Language of Sacred Science
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Rene Guenon, Martin Lings (Editor), Alvin Moore (Translator)
In this work, probably the most significant in a modern Western language concerning symbolism, Guenon deals with the metaphysical and cosmological meaning of symbols drawn from traditions as far apart as the Greek and the Buddhist, the Druid, and the Islamic.
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Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology
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Martin Lings (Translator)
"Sufi Poems" is a selection of poems from the golden period of Sufism especially chosen and translated from the Arabic by the distinguished scholar Dr Martin Lings. Dr Lings is the author of numerous best-selling works on Sufism and is a published poet in his own right. Inlcuding poems here translated for the first time, "Sufi Poems" brings ...
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The Qur'an: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Qur'an Manuscripts at the British Library, 3 April-15 August 1976
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British Library, Martin Lings
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Shakespeare in the light of sacred art.
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The Eleventh Hour: The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern World in Light of Tradition and Prophecy
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Martin Lings gives us from the outset powerful reasons for believing that we have now reached a point in time from which "the end" -- whatever that may mean -- is already in sight without being immediately imminent. In other words, we are now at an hour which is neither the tenth nor the twelfth. He argues that what Judaism, Christianity and Islam ...
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The Secret of Shakespeare: His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art
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Shakespeare's essential greatness is clarified by placing his plays in the broad context of sacred art and showing his preoccupation with the quest for human perfection and the mystery of sanctification. In The Secret of Shakespeare, Martin Lings "says more to reveal the quintessence of Shakespeare's greatness than the most laborious exposition ...
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The Holy Qur'an: Translations of Selected Verses
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Martin Lings (Translator)
This translation is a short and accessible introduction to the Qur'an, written by a world-renowned scholar and Sufi master. A work in progress at the time of the author's death, this publication features selected verses that have been culled from previously unpublished writings. The ...
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Mecca
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In this, one of his last works, Martin Lings discusses the significance of the pilgrimage to Mecca, made annually by several million Muslims, in the light of the tradition of Abraham. Drawing upon his own experience of performing the pilgrimage first in 1946 and then in 1978, as well referring to the traditional sources, he considers the timeless ...
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The Underlying Religion: An Introduction to the Perennial Philosphy
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Martin Lings (Editor), Clinton Minnaar (Editor)
This is an anthology of 25 essays by the leading exponents of the perennialist school of comparative religious thought. It aims to be the most accessible introduction yet to the perspective of the Perennial Philosophy.
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A Moslem saint of the twentieth century : Shaikh Ahmad al-'Alawi: his spiritual heritage and legacy.
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