Martin Lings (January 24 1909 May 12 2005) also known as Abu Bakr Siraj Ad-Din was an English Sunni Muslim writer and scholar a student of Frithjof Schuon and a Shakespearean scholar. He is best known as the author of a very popular and positively reviewed biography Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources first published in 1983 and still in print. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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