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Hallaj : Mystic and Martyr - Abridged Edition / Louis Massignon; ed. by Herbert Mason.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 671Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 8 pages of halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691234540
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • BP80.H27 M3713 1994eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword to the Abridged Edition -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Biographical Outline -- CHAPTER TWO The Years of Apprenticeship: His Teachers and Friends -- CHAPTER THREE Travels and Apostolate -- CHAPTER FOUR In Baghdad: Zealous Preaching and Political Indictment -- CHAPTER FIVE The Indictment, The Court of Justice, and the Actors in the Drama -- CHAPTER SIX The Trials -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Martyrdom
Summary: 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:
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword to the Abridged Edition -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Biographical Outline -- CHAPTER TWO The Years of Apprenticeship: His Teachers and Friends -- CHAPTER THREE Travels and Apostolate -- CHAPTER FOUR In Baghdad: Zealous Preaching and Political Indictment -- CHAPTER FIVE The Indictment, The Court of Justice, and the Actors in the Drama -- CHAPTER SIX The Trials -- CHAPTER SEVEN The Martyrdom

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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:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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