Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Martin Lings

Born: January 24, 1909
Died: May 12, 2005 (aged 96)
Bio: Martin Lings, 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.
Known for:
- Ancient beliefs and modern superstitions (1964)
- The book of certainty (1970)
- A Return to the Spirit (2005)