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| The Essential Martin Lings |
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Subjects(s):
Art
Comparative Religion
Esoterism
Islam
Modernism
Perennial Philosophy
Poetry
Sufism
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Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 978-1-936597-74-1
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Book Size: 6" x 9"
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# of Pages: 368
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Language: English
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Description
This collection of the essential writings of Martin Lings brings together some of the most outstanding chapters from his wide range of works. In addition to selections dealing with the perennial philosophy, such as “Do the Religions Contradict One Another?”, the anthology includes sections from his extensive writings on Islam and Sufism, and on the spiritual dimensions to be found in Shakespeare’s mature plays.
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Martin Lings (1909–2005), the former Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts at the British Museum, was a leading member of the perennialist school and a renowned author, editor, translator, scholar, Arabist, and poet. After a classical education he read English at Oxford where he was a pupil and later a close friend of C. S. Lewis. Lings is the author of several award-winning books on subjects ranging from Sufism to Shakespeare, including A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad al-ʿAlawi, His Spiritual Heritage and Legacy, the best-selling Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources (translated into over a dozen languages), and Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art.
Reza Shah-Kazemi (b. 1960) is an author in the fields of Islamic studies and Comparative Religion. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and has been involved in important interfaith initiatives for the last two decades. He has edited, translated, and written numerous books and articles, including Paths to Transcendence according to Shankara, Ibn Arabi & Meister Eckhart, the award-winning Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali, and Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism, which was prefaced and launched by HH The Dalai Lama. Shah-Kazemi lives in Westerham in the south of England.
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Martin Lings (1909-2005) was a leading member of the “Traditionalist” or “Perennialist” school and an acclaimed author, editor, translator, scholar, Arabist, and poet whose work centers on the relationship between God and man through religious doctrine, scripture, symbolism, literature, and art. He was an accomplished metaphysician and essayist who often turned to the world’s great spiritual traditions for examples, though he is probably best known for his writings on Islam and its esoteric tradition, Sufism.
Dr. Lings co-edited The Underlying Religion (2007) with Clinton Minnar. This book is a survey of central perennialist ideas and authors. Dr Lings contributed the following essays to various World Wisdom books:
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Editor’s Preface
Metaphysics
Oneness of Being
The Symbolism of the Letters of the Alphabet
Hermeneutics
The Truth of Certainty
The Fall
The Symbol
The Seal of Solomon
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
What is Symbolism?
The Decisive Boundary
The Symbolism of the Pairs
Tradition and Modernity
The Past in the Light of the Present
The Spirit of the Times
Do the Religions Contradict One Another?
Traditional Psychology
The Secret of Shakespeare
Why "With All Thy Mind"?
Islam
The Spiritual Master
The Originality of Sufism
The Universality of Sufism
The Heart
Introduction to Splendours of Qur’ān Calligraphy
and Illumination
The Qur’ānic Art of Calligraphy
The Qur’ānic Art of Illumination
Selections from Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
I The House of God
VIII The Desert
X Baḥīrà the Monk
XIII The Household
XV The First Revelations
XXXVII The Hijrah
LXVII "A Clear Victory"
LXXV The Conquest of Mecca
LXXXI The Degrees
LXXXIV The Choice
Art and Poetry
Hamlet
The Meeting Place
Translations from the Arabic
Al-Ghazālī, Deathbed Poem
ʿUmar Ibn al-Fāriḍ, The Wine-Song (Al-Khamriyya)
Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī, The Path
Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī, The Wine
Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī, Laylā
List of Sources
Bibliography
Biographical Notes
Index of Names
Index of Foreign Terms
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