“One of the great privileges of my life has been to know Dr. Martin Lings. He saw beneath the surface of things and helped us penetrate the veil behind which lies the sacred meaning to so many of life’s mysteries.”

– HM King Charles III

“After the three founding figures of the Traditionalist school, that is, Guénon, Coomaraswamy, and Schuon, Lings is without doubt one of the most significant voices. . . . In him piety and intelligence, knowledge and love were combined. . . . He left behind many works of unusual light and beauty combined with scholarly and intellectual rigor.”

– Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The George Washington University, author of Knowledge and the Sacred and The Heart of Islam

“Martin Lings has been a role model for me. . . . Like everyone else who knew him intimately, I revered him for being the saint he was.”

– Huston Smith, Syracuse University, author of The World’s Religions and Why Religion Matters

“This marvelous anthology draws on Lings’ masterly exegeses of sacred texts and doctrines, his peerless lives of the Prophet and Shaykh Ahmad al-?Alawi, his elucidations of Shakespeare and the Sufi poets, his acute diagnosis of our contemporary spiritual malaise, and his reaffirmations of the perennial wisdom. A veritable treasure-house!”

– Harry Oldmeadow, Bendigo University, author of Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy