Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Biographies & Memoirs

Martin Lings

Leaders & Notable People

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

A presentation of eight contemporary artists whose work considers environmental questions in terms of their social and political implications &nbsp; Humane Ecology: Eight Positions features a group of contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of environmental questions: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Carolina Caycedo, Allison Janae Hamilton, Juan Antonio Olivares, Christine Howard Sandoval, Pallavi Sen, and Kandis Williams. These artists--through their work in sculpture, video, sound installation, and plantings--think in the relational terms implied by ecology, the study of how organisms relate to one another and their environment. They explore themes such as the extraction and exploitation of both places and people, kinships with the more-than-human world, and ancient traditions of relation to the land that take on new urgency and form. Against posthumanist tendencies to "decenter" the human, these artists center different humans, ones routinely excluded from dominant discourses of environmentalism. The publication presents entries on each artist in addition to scholarly essays on the exhibition concept, genealogies of land art, and settler colonial histories of the Berkshires. &nbsp; Distributed for the Clark Art Institute &nbsp; Exhibition Schedule: &nbsp; Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (July 15-October 29, 2023) &nbsp;

Symbol And Archetype

'Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages': this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the first edition of the book. According to the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, it is 'one of the most thorough and intimately engaging books on Sufism to be produced by a Western scholar'. Certainly there is nothing second-hand about it. The author lets Sufis speak for themselves and, in a series of unusual and absorbing texts mainly translated from Arabic, he gives a vivid picture of life in a North African Sufi order. Against this background stands the unforgettable figure of the Algerian Shaikh who was head of the order from 1909 until his death in 1934. The last few chapters are mainly devoted to his writings, which include some penetrating aphorisms, and which end with a small anthology of his remarkable mystic poems.

A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad al-`Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy

Religion & Spirituality

University of California Press

"What do the Sufis believe? What do they aim at? What do they do? Unlike other writers on the subject, Martin Lings treats all three questions with equal justice. He is thus able to give a wealth of answers to the main question, What is Sufism?, each answer being from a different angle but all going to the root of the matter"--Dust jacket.

What is Sufism?

The Secret of Shakespeare

Literature & Fiction

SIL Trading Ltd

Martin Lings clarifies the essential greatness of Shakespeare by focussing our attention on the total impact his best plays make on us when acted. For this purpose he concentrates on the texts and their theatrical rendering, in such a way as to transmit to us, at the same time, a powerful impression of Shakespeare the man, such as perhaps no other book can give us. For the second edition the chapters on Macbeth and The Tempest were rewrittten to more than twice their original length; and now, for this third edition, the same has been done for the chapters of Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale, as well as for the 'Notes on Performance and Production', with additions to other chapters also. The Foreword to third edition was written by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.

Dramas & Plays

Inner Traditions

Over-sized hardback book (242 pages) with dust jacket titled THE QURANIC ART OF CALLIGRAPHY AND ILLUMINATION by Martin Lings. Published by World of Islamic Festival Trust in 1976. Beautifully illustrated with 114 color plates. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-12-R-bottom-up) rareviewbooks

The Quranic art of calligraphy and illumination

Arts & Photography

Other Media

Tajir Trust

Acclaimed worldwide as the definitive biography of the Prophet in the English language. This book will be read with equal enjoyment by those already familiar with Muhammad's life and those coming to it for the first time.

Islamic Texts Society

With reference to the great religions of the world, particularly to Christianity and Islam, symbolism is defined in a renewed consciousness that everything—numbers, elements, senses, and colors—has a vertical dimension that gives it a divine significance.

Symbol and Archetype : A Study of the Meaning of Existence

Fons Vitae

The Secret of Shakespeare: His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art

Quinta Essentia

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Books by Martin Lings

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Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Symbol And Archetype

A Sufi Saint of the Twentieth Century: Shaikh Ahmad al-`Alawi : his spiritual heritage and legacy

What is Sufism?

The Secret of Shakespeare

The Secret of Shakespeare

The Quranic art of calligraphy and illumination

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Symbol and Archetype : A Study of the Meaning of Existence

The Secret of Shakespeare: His Greatest Plays Seen in the Light of Sacred Art