Hallaj - Mystic and Martyr - Abridged Edition

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:

About the author

Herbert Mason is University Professor of History and Religion at Boston University.

Summary

Explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr: Al-Hallaj. This book describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization.

Additional text

"An incomparable study of the religious forces, the social and political life, and the whole culture of the Islamic world within which [this saint] lived and died."---Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies

Product details

• Authors: Louis Massignon, Massignon Louis
• Assisted by: Herbert Mason (Editor), Herbert W. Mason (Editor), Herbert Mason (Translation), Herbert Mason (Editor and translation), Mason Herbert (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.07.1994
• EAN: 9780691019192
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01919-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 482 g
• Illustrations: 8 pages of halftones
• Series: Bollingen Series; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, Theology