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PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691019193

ISBN-139780691019192

eBay Product ID (ePID)910028

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Number of Pages336 Pages

Publication NameHallaj : Mystic and Martyr-Abridged Edition

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1994

SubjectIslamic Studies, Islam / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorLouis Massignon

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science

SeriesMythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7.2 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN93-011410

ReviewsAn 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, "The French original of this work has stood for most of this century as a model of the way Western scholarship can illumine a foreign culture, not patronize or denature it.... This translation climaxes one of the most focused projects of humanistic scholarship this century has seen."-- Huston Smith, Commonweal, The French original of this work has stood for most of this century as a model of the way Western scholarship can illumine a foreign culture, not patronize or denature it.... This translation climaxes one of the most focused projects of humanistic scholarship this century has seen. -- Huston Smith, Commonweal, The French original of this work has stood for most of this century as a model of the way Western scholarship can illumine a foreign culture, not patronize or denature it.... This translation climaxes one of the most focused projects of humanistic scholarship this century has seen., "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, "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, 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., "The French original of this work has stood for most of this century as a model of the way Western scholarship can illumine a foreign culture, not patronize or denature it.... This translation climaxes one of the most focused projects of humanistic scholarship this century has seen." --Huston Smith, Commonweal

Dewey Edition19

Series Volume Number68

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal297/.6

Edition DescriptionAbridged edition,Reprint,Revised edition

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Foreword to the Abridged Edition Preface Ch. 1 Biographical Outline 1 I Prologue 1 II Chronological Tableau of Hallaj's Life and Posthumous Survival 9 Ch. 2 The Years of Apprenticeship: His Teachers and Friends 24 I Native Milieu 24 II The Cultural Milieu of Basra 33 III Anecdotes from His Years of Apprenticeship: His Hajj (Ghutba) 52 Ch. 3 Travels and Apostolate 72 I His Modes of Travel: His Dress, His Itineraries, His Stopping Places 72 II The Two Periods of Public Preaching in Ahwaz (272-273 and 279-281) 74 III The Other Regions Traveled Through 89 IV The Social Expression of Hallaj's Vocation, and His Contacts with the Cultural Renaissance of His Time 101 V The Last Hajj of Hallaj and the Waqfa of Arafat 114 Ch. 4 In Baghdad: Zealous Preaching and Political Indictment 117 I Baghdad 117 II Public Preaching in Baghdad 132 III Political Indictment: The Dawat Ilal-Rububiya, Usurpation of the Supreme Power of God 150 Ch. 5 The Indictment, The Court of Justice, and the Actors in the Drama 157 I The Indictment and Ibn Dawud's Initiative 157 II The Definition of Zandaqa, a Heresy Threatening the Security of the State 177 III The Sovereign Authority and Its Delegation to a Court of Justice; the Court of Justice, Its Powers and Jurisdiction 180 Ch. 6 The Trials 208 I A Critical Note about the Historical Sources for the Trials 208 II The First Trial (298/910 to 301/913) 211 III The Eight Years of Waiting 219 IV The Second Trial (308/921 to 309/922) 227 V The Denouement and the Judgment of Condemnation 256 Ch. 7 The Martyrdom 280 The Peripeteias of the Execution 280

SynopsisExplores 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., 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 10th-century Sufi mystic and martyr, describing not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization. Halftone illustrations., 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:

LC Classification NumberBP80.H27M3713 1994