Early Philosophical Ṣūfism: The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ

  • Saer El-Jaichi

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Abstract

This study challenges the conventional image of the tenth-century Sufi mystic Al-Husayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ (d. 929) as an anti-philosophical mystic. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Ḥallāğ, this study is completely philosophical in nature, placing Ḥallāğ within the tradition of Graeco-Arabic philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the pagan Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationPiscataway
PublisherGorgias Press
Number of pages232
ISBN (Print) 978-1-4632-3917-6
Publication statusPublished - 30 Oct 2018
Externally publishedYes
Series Islamic History and Thought
Number8

Keywords

  • Philosophy
  • Sufism
  • History

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