Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions
Ancient Beliefs and Modern Superstitions
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Author(s): Lings, Martin
ISBN No.: 9781901383027
Edition: Revised
Pages: 84
Year: 200110
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 20.22
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Martin Lings was born in Lancashire in 1909. After a classical education he read English at Oxford where he was a pupil and later a close friend of C. S. Lewis. In 1935 he went to Lithuania where he lectured on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English and subsequently he went to Egypt and and lectured mainly on Shakespeare at Cairo University. In 1952 he returned to England and took a degree in Arabic and in 1955 he joined the staff of the British Museum where from 1970-73 he was Keeper of Oriental Manuscripts. For the following year he held the same post in the newly founded British Library. In addition to writing many books, as well as articles for Studies in Comparative Religion, Sophia, The New Encyclopaedia of Islam and the Encyclopaedia Britannica.



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