Lewis, who would become a close friend of his. Lings attended Clifton College and went on to Magdalen College, Oxford (BA (Oxon) English Language and Literature). The young Lings gained an introduction to travelling at a young age, spending significant time in the United States due to his father's employment. Lings was born in Burnage, Manchester in 1909 to a Protestant family. 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. Martin Lings was an English writer and scholar, a student and follower of Frithjof Schuon, and Shakespearean scholar.
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