'Martin Lings: From Sufi Spirituality to Shakespearean Symbolism' with Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi

Martin Lings (1909-2005) is widely known in the Muslim community for his unrivalled and much-loved Prophetic biography, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources; but Lings was also a prolific scholar on both Sufism and Shakespeare. Through his work on the sacred and universal aspects of Shakespeare’s writings, he showed how these seemingly unconnected worlds were in fact remarkably intertwined.

Join Dr. Shah-Kazemi, a student and friend of Lings, for a fascinating discussion on one of the 20th century's most influential Muslim thinkers.

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Reza Shah-Kazemi is an author of works in Comparative Religion and Islamic Studies, Managing Editor of Encyclopaedia Islamica, and a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Among his works are: Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi and Meister Eckhart (Bloomington: World Wisdom Books, 2006); Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006); and Common Ground between Islam and Buddhism (Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2010)

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