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Into his Lord's mercy: remembering Martin Lings (January 24, 1909-May 12, 2005).(Obituary)
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December 22, 2005|
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My letter had remained unanswered, but a few days before my departure for Iran, I received a message through a friend that Martin Lings would soon contact me. I had wanted to stop over in England to see him. We had never met, but he had been a constant presence in my life since the early 1970s, when he and a handful of other Westerners who had formed a close-knit group around Rene Guenon (Shaykh 'Abd al-Wahid Yahya, 1886-1951) first entered my spiritual and emotional life. That first encounter, which had taken place in a literary setting through the works of Muhammad Hasan ...
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