Details

Edition

Princeton Legacy Library edition.

Description

1 online resource

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computer c rdamedia

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Series

Bollingen series ; XCVIII

Bollingen series ; 98.

JSTOR EBA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 7, 2019).

Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents Of Volume 4 -- Abbreviations -- System Of References To Manuscripts -- XV. Bibliography -- XVI. Index

Summary

Volume 4 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 mysticism in a way that was previously unknown. Massignon traveled throughout the Middle East and western India to gather and authenticate al-Hallaj's surviving writings and the recorded facts. After assembling the extant verses and prose works of al-Hallaj and the accounts of his life and death, Massignon published La Passion d'al-Hallaj in 1922. At his death in 1962, he left behind a greatly expanded version, published as the second French edition (1975). It is edited and translated here from the French and the Arabic sources by Massignon's friend and pupil, Herbert Mason. Volume 1 gives an account of al-Hallaj's life and describes the world in which he lives; volume 2 traces his influence in Islam over the centuries; volume 3 studies Hallajian thought; volume 4 contains a full biography and index. Each volume contains Massignon's copious notes and new translations of original Islamic documents. Herbert Mason is University Professor of Religion and Islamic History at Boston University. He is also a poet and novelist; his version of the Gigamesh epic was a nominee for the National Book Award in 1971. Bollingen Series XCVIII. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, 858 or 859-922.

Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, 858 or 859-922. (OCoLC)fst01822531

Sufis -- Biography.

Sufism.

Soufis -- Biographies.

Soufisme.

Sufism.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.

RELIGION -- Islam -- General.

Sufis. (OCoLC)fst01137253

Sufism. (OCoLC)fst01137257

Genre/Form

Biography

Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896

Biographies.

Biographies.

Added Author

Mason, Herbert, 1932-2017, translator, writer of foreword.

Added Title

Biography and index

ISBN

9780691200484 (electronic bk.)

0691200483 (electronic bk.)

9780691655819