The passion of al-Hallāj : mystic and martyr of Islam

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The passion of al-Hallāj : mystic and martyr of Islam

Louis Massignon ; translated from the French with a biographical foreword by Herbert Mason

(Bollingen series, 98)

Princeton University Press, c1982

  • : set
  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3
  • v. 4

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La Passion de Husayn Ibn Mansûr Hallâj

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Translation of: La Passion de Husayn Ibn Mansûr Hallâj

Contents: v. 1. The life of al-Hallāj -- v. 2. The survival of al-Hallāj -- v. 3. The teaching of al-Hallāj -- v. 4. Bibliography and index

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the 10th-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj. With profound spiritual insight and transcultural sympathy, Massignon, an Islamicist and scholar of religion, penetrates Islamic mysticism in a way that was previously unknown

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