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:
| ISBN: | 9780691019192 |
| Publication date: | 11th August 1994 |
| Author: | Louis Massignon, Herbert Mason |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 292 pages |
| Series: | Bollingen Series |
| Genres: |
Islam |