The passion of Al-Hallaj : mystic and martyr of Islam / Louis Massignon ; translated and edited by Herbert Mason.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massignon, Louis, 1883-1962.

Contributor:

Mason, Herbert, 1932-2017.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Bollingen series

Bollingen series ; 98

Standardized Title:

Passion de Husayn Ibn Mansûr Hallâj. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, 858 or 859-922.

Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr.

Sufis--Biography.

Sufis.

Hallāj, al-Husayn ibn Mansūr.

Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, 858 or 859-922.

Sufism.

Local Subjects:

Hallāj, al-Husayn ibn Mansūr.

Genre:

collective biographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 292 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

Abridged ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1994.

Language Note:

Translation of: La passion de Husayn Ibn Mansûr Hallâj.

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. -- Back cover.

Contents:

Biographical outline

The years of apprenticeship : his teachers and friends

Travels and apostolate

In Baghdad : the zealous preaching and political indictment

The indictment, the court of justice and the actors in the drama

The trials

The martyrdom.

Notes:

Abridgment of the English translation, c1982.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0691019193

9780691019192

0691099103

9780691099101

OCLC:

28377498

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