Truth and Narrative
Subtitle: The Untimely Thoughts of 'Ayn al-Qudat
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: June 9, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 671
ISBN-13: 9780700710027
Subjects: Biography: general; History of ideas, intellectual history; Islam; Islamic studies; Non-Western philosophy; d. 1131; Philosophy; °Ayn al-Quòdåah al-Hamadhåanåi, °Abd Allåah ibn Muòhammad,; Eastern; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; History & Surveys - General; Ayn al-Qudah al-Hamadhani; Philosophy, Islamic; Sufism
First sentence: In one of the few commentaries that Orientalist scholars have written on 'Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani, this is how he is introduced: The most famous victim of outraged orthodoxy was al-Hallaj, 'martyr-mystic of Islam' as he was called by the late Louis Massignon....