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AL-HALLAJ ROUTLEDGE SUFI SERIES Series Editor: Ian Richard Netton Readerin ArabicandIslamic Civilization and Thought, UniversityofExeter The Routledge SufiSeriesattemptstoprovide shortintroductionstoa varietyoffacets ofthe subject,which areaccessible both to the general readerand thestudentandscholarin the field.Each bookwillbe eitherasynthesisofexistingknowledge ora distinct contribution to, andextension of, knowledge ofthe particular topic. The twomajor underlyingprinciplesoftheSeriesare soundscholarshipand readability. ABDULIAHANSARI OFHERAI' An Early Sufi Master A.G. Ravan Farhadi PERSIAN SUFI POETRY An Introduction to the Mystical Use ofClassical Persian Poetry J.T.P. de Bruijn RUZBlHAN BAQLI Mysticism and the RhetoricofSainthood in Persian Sufism CarlW.Ernst BEYOND FAITHAND INFIDELITY The Sufi Poetryand TeachingsofMahmudShabistari LeonardLewisohn AL-HALLAJ Herbert W Mason 1 ~ ~ R~~o~:~;un~~t~ulpedge ~ ~ Taylor&FrancisGroup NELWONYDOORKNALNODNDNOENWYORK Firstpublishedin 1995 by Routledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OXl44RN TransferredtoDigitalPrinting2007 © 1995 HerbertW.Mason Typesetin BaskervillebyExcelBooks, NewDelhi Allrightsreserved.No partofthis bookmaybe reprintedor reproducedorutilisedin any form orbyany electronic, mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafter invented,includingphotocopyingandrecording, orin any informationstorageorretrievalsystem, withoutpermissionin writingfrom the publishers. British Liln-aryCataloguingin PublicationData Acataloguerecordfor thisbookisavailablefrom theBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressin PublicationData Acatalogrecordfor thisbookhas beenrequested ISBN070070311 X Publisher'sNote Thepublisherhas gonetogreatlengthstoensurethe qualityofthis reprintbutpointsoutthatsome imperfectionsinthe original maybe apparent CONTENTS Foreword IX I. The Facts of his Life and Theme of Disappearance 1 II. The Resurfacing of his Life and its Repeated Impact 35 III. The Problem of Universalism 53 IV. The Question of Uniqueness 63 V. Reprise: Who was Hallaj and what is his Place in Islamic Mysticism? 75 VI. The Death of al-Hallaj 88 VII. Selected Bibliography 98 Name Index 103 Index of Terms 105 v Thispageintentionallyleftblank Also byHerbertMason POETRY TheDeath ofal-Hallaj, aDramaticNarrative Gilgamesh,a VerseNarrative A Legend ofAlexanderand TheMerchant and theParrot, twoDramaticPoems FICTION Gilpins Point, a novella SummerLight, a novel MEMOIR Memoir ofaFriend: LouisMassignon Moments in Passage STUDIESAND TRANSLATIONS ThePassion ofal-HallajbyLouis Massignon, (4vols) Hallaj, Martyr andMysticbyLouis Massignon, 1vol. abridgement Testimonies andReflections Two Statesmen ofMediaevalIslam Reflectionson theMiddleEast Crisis Thispageintentionallyleftblank Formyfriends and colleagues, especially SalihAhoma, Dino Cavallari,AlbertDuclos,jabraIbrahimjabra, jamesLangford, George Makdisi, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Annemarie Schimmel, Huston Smith,and Merlin Swartz IX
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