# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-lings
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:02:51.025Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-lings"
name: "Martin Lings"
slug: "martin-lings"
description: "Martin Lings, also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher. A student of the Swiss metaphysician Frithjof Schuon and an authority on the work of William Shakespeare, he is best known as the author of Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources."
tagline: "English writer and scholar (1909-2005)"
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birthDate: "1909-01-24"
deathDate: "2005-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump