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The Passion of Al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Volume 2: The Survival of al-Hallaj
By (Author) Louis Massignon
Translated by Herbert Mason
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th October 2019
United States
General
Non Fiction
Religious and spiritual figures
297.6
Hardback
512
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
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 mysticis