Al Hallaj and Qajar girl with Jewelry
Recommended Reading:
'The Passion of Al-Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr of Islam'
By Louis Massignon (Author, Preface), Herbert W. Mason (Editor)
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Description:
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)
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)
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)
'The Passion of Al-Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr of Islam'
By Louis Massignon (Author, Preface), Herbert W. Mason (Editor)
Purchase Book:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Description:
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)
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)
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)
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