The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2 : The Survival of al-Hallaj / Louis Massignon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massignon, Louis, author.

Contributor:

Mason, Herbert, 1932-2017.

Bollingen Foundation Collection (Library of Congress)

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5615

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr.

Sufis--Biography.

Sufis.

Sufism.

Middle Eastern 2 :--Ancient to 632.

Middle Eastern 2 :.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 pages).

Edition:

Princeton Legacy Library edition 2019.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Volume 2 of 4. Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-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. Massignon traveled throughout the Middle East and western India to gather and authenticate al-Hallaj's surviving writings and the recorded facts. After assembling the extant verses and prose works of al-Hallaj and the accounts of his life and death, Massignon published La Passion d'al-Hallaj in 1922. At his death in 1962, he left behind a greatly expanded version, published as the second French edition (1975). It is edited and translated here from the French and the Arabic sources by Massignon's friend and pupil, Herbert Mason. Volume 1 gives an account of al-Hallaj's life and describes the world in which he lives; volume 2 traces his influence in Islam over the centuries; volume 3 studies Hallajian thought; volume 4 contains a full biography and index. Each volume contains Massignon's copious notes and new translations of original Islamic documents. Herbert Mason is University Professor of Religion and Islamic History at Boston University. He is also a poet and novelist; his version of the Gigamesh epic was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1971.Bollingen Series XCVIII. Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents Of Volume 2

List Of Illustrations To Volume 2

VIII. Modalities Of The Hallājian Survival

IX. The History Of The Localizations Of Hallājian Tradition

X. The Hallājian Legend, Its Origins, Its Literary Flowering

Appendix: Critical Analysis Of The Hallājian Sources

Notes:

9780691655796_FC; 9780691200460_WEB

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780691655796

0691655790

9780691200460

0691200467

OCLC:

1104083791