Early Philosophical Sufism

This study challenges the conventional image of the tenth-century Sufi mystic Al-Husayn Ibn Man?ur al-?allag (d. 929) as an anti-philosophical mystic. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on ?allag, this study is completely philosophical in nature, placing ?allag within the tradition of Graeco-Arabic philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the pagan Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus.

• | Author: Saer El-Jaichi
• | Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
• | Publication Date: Oct 30, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1463239173
• | ISBN-13: 9781463239176