The passion of Al-Hallaj : mystic and martyr of Islam
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The passion of Al-Hallaj : mystic and martyr of Islam
(Bollingen series, 98)(Mythos)(Princeton paperbacks)
Princeton University Press, c1994
Abridged ed
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La passion de Husayn Ibn Mansûr Hallâj
Hallāj : mystic and martyr
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Abridgment of the English translation, c1982
Includes bibliographical references
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Abridged from the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr, and in so doing describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization. Louis Massignon (1883-1962), France's most celebrated Islamic specialist in this century and a leading Catholic intellectual, wrote of a man who was for him a personal inspiration. From reviews of the four-volume translation:
Table of Contents
- List of IllustrationsForeword to the Abridged EditionPrefaceCh. 1Biographical Outline1IPrologue1IIChronological Tableau of Hallaj's Life and Posthumous Survival9Ch. 2The Years of Apprenticeship: His Teachers and Friends24INative Milieu24IIThe Cultural Milieu of Basra33IIIAnecdotes from His Years of Apprenticeship: His Hajj (Ghutba)52Ch. 3Travels and Apostolate72IHis Modes of Travel: His Dress, His Itineraries, His Stopping Places72IIThe Two Periods of Public Preaching in Ahwaz (272-273 and 279-281)74IIIThe Other Regions Traveled Through89IVThe Social Expression of Hallaj's Vocation, and His Contacts with the Cultural Renaissance of His Time101VThe Last Hajj of Hallaj and the Waqfa of Arafat114Ch. 4In Baghdad: Zealous Preaching and Political Indictment117IBaghdad117IIPublic Preaching in Baghdad132IIIPolitical Indictment: The Dawat Ilal-Rububiya, Usurpation of the Supreme Power of God150Ch. 5The Indictment, The Court of Justice, and the Actors in the Drama157IThe Indictment and Ibn Dawud's Initiative157IIThe Definition of Zandaqa, a Heresy Threatening the Security of the State177IIIThe Sovereign Authority and Its Delegation to a Court of Justice
- the Court of Justice, Its Powers and Jurisdiction180Ch. 6The Trials208IA Critical Note about the Historical Sources for the Trials208IIThe First Trial (298/910 to 301/913)211IIIThe Eight Years of Waiting219IVThe Second Trial (308/921 to 309/922)227VThe Denouement and the Judgment of Condemnation256Ch. 7The Martyrdom280The Peripeteias of the Execution280
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