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'What Martin Lings adds by way of commentary is of the greatest significance and may serve as a key to a deeper understanding of Islam as a whole.' -- Titus Burckhardt 'A masterly study of a man whose sanctity recalled the golden age of medieval mystics. In this well documented book Dr Lings draws on many rare sources... and has made some important original contributions.' -- A. J. Arberry 'One of the most thorough and intimately engaging books on Sufism to be produced by a Western scholar.'

'A masterly study of a man whose sanctity recalled the golden age of medieval mystics. In this well documented book Dr Lings draws on many rare sources ... and has made some important original contributions.' A. J. Arberry; 'What Martin Lings adds by way of commentary is of the greatest significance and may serve as a key to a deeper understanding of Islam as a whole.' Titus Burckhardt.

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The late Dr Martin Lings, formerly Keeper of Oriental Manuscript at the British Museum and the British Library, is the author of the best-selling title Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, and of What is Sufism?, The Book of Certainty, Sufi Poems: A Mediaeval Anthology, and The Holy Qur'an: Translations of Selected Verses, all published by the Islamic Texts Society.

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