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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
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This work is acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language. Martin Lings' life of Muhammad is unlike any other. 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 ...
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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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Symbol & Archetype: A Study of the Meaning of Existence
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Every religious tradition or metaphysical worldview involves a system of powerful symbols, most of which bear common meanings across cultures, continents, and time. This volume, complete with a 9th century Quranic manuscript, explores the significance of the most recurrent symbols and archetypes in human history and elaborates" "a compelling ...
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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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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 is ...
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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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The Holy Qur'an: Translations of Selected Verses
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Martin Lings (Translator)
The renowned scholar and Sufi master, the late Dr Martin Lings (Shaykh Abu Bakr Siraj ad-Din) was working on a full translation of the Qur'an when he passed away last year. The Islamic Texts Society in association with the Aal al-Bayt Foundation, who had commissioned Dr Lings to translate the Qur'an, were given access to his private papers. The ...
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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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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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A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad Al-'Alawi, His Spiritual Heritage & Legacy
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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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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. Including poems here translated for the first time, Sufi Poems brings together ...
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The elements, and other poems.
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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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A Return to the Spirit: Questions and Answers
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Martin Lings
This insightful autobiographical account details one man's relationship with a spiritual master and how it led to a deep spiritual understanding of human life. The 96-year-old author, a respected British scholar, recounts the lessons learned from the Sufi sage, including the answers to profound questions such as "Do religions contradict one ...
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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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A Sufi saint of the twentieth century: Shaik Ahmad al-Alawi: his spiritual heritage and legacy.
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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
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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Mecca
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Martin Lings
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 Book of Certainty,
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Siraj Ed-Din, Martin Lings
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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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Quranic Art Callig & Ill
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The Heralds, and Other Poems
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Rene Guenon, Martin Lings, C. B. Bethell (Translator)
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Collected Poems
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Martin Lings
- Inspirational poems by a world expert on Shakespeare and Sufism - 'The Meeting Place' is as good as poetry gets. Stunning is the only word for it.' review by Hamza Yusuf - 'I have read it many times alone and to friends in my home and over the phone always with the same result, profound silence.' HY
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