Quote of the day
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
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)







