TY - BOOK AU - Massignon,Louis AU - Massignon, Louis AU - Mason, Herbert TI - Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr - Abridged Edition SN - 9780691019192 PY - 2021/// PB - Princeton University Press N2 - 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 UR - https://international.scholarvox.com/netsen/book/88956869 ER -