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Martin lings biography5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Lewis, the most influential figure in his education. Lings’ clarity and rigour came from his incessant studies on Shakespeare, whose works he got to know by way of C.S. And while Schuon is remembered for a perennialist mysticism that bordered syncretism, the form of Sufism Lings brought to the West was much less cryptic. While Schuon expressed himself through his tireless German complexity, Lings described the Prophet with turgid language. As every true disciple is destined to do, Martin ended up surpassing him. He was so devoted to Frithjof Schuon, the closest among his teachers, that he ended up resembling him in many ways – same gaze, same gait. Like water can change its form, he could be a librarian, a Sufi or a professor. Martin Lings was just as at ease in his unbuttoned, exquisitely tailored, very British corduroy jacket at his home in Westerham, Kent, as he was throwing a bisht, the traditional Arab cloak woven out of camel’s hair and goat wool, over his shoulder in the streets of Cairo. The second installment of the series curated by Pietrangelo Buttafuoco tells the story of Martin Lings ![]() ![]() Lives in history of the Mediterranean: Martin Lings ![]()
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