TY - GEN T1 - The passion of al-Hallaj : Mystic and Martyr of Islam. T2 - Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser. A1 - Massignon, Louis, 1883-1962 A2 - Mason, Herbert LA - English PP - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press YR - 1994 ED - Abridged edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1261366039 AB - 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: OP - 338 NO - Description based upon print version of record. NO - The Towns of Transoxiana (Mawaralnahr): Bukhara, Samarqand, Ush, Isfijab. CN - BP80.H27 M3713 1994eb SN - 9780691234540 SN - 069123454X SN - 9780691019192 KW - Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, : 858 or 859-922. KW - Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, : 858 or 859-922 KW - Sufis : Biography. KW - Soufis : Biographies. KW - Sufis KW - Biographies ER -