"Lings, Martin"@en . "English writer and scholar" . . . "Martin Lings"@en . . . . "Martin Lings"@en . . "1909Z"^^ . "2005-05-12Z"^^ . . . "2005Z"^^ . "1909-01-24Z"^^ . "Martin Lings (24 January 1909 \u2013 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 Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, first published in 1983 and still in print."@en .