Hallaj : : Mystic and Martyr - Abridged Edition / / Louis Massignon; ed. by Herbert Mason.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Massignon, Louis,
• HerausgeberIn: Mason, Herbert,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1994
• Έτος έκδοσης: 2021
• Γλώσσα: English
• Σειρά: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 671
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 8 pages of halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Foreword to the Abridged Edition --; Preface --; CHAPTER ONE Biographical Outline --; CHAPTER TWO The Years of Apprenticeship: His Teachers and Friends --; CHAPTER THREE Travels and Apostolate --; CHAPTER FOUR In Baghdad: Zealous Preaching and Political Indictment --; CHAPTER FIVE The Indictment, The Court of Justice, and the Actors in the Drama --; CHAPTER SIX The Trials --; CHAPTER SEVEN The Martyrdom
• Περίληψη: 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:
• Μορφή: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691234540; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691234540?locatt=mode:legacy
• Πρόσβαση: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Louis Massignon; ed. by Herbert Mason.

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....