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Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

by Carl W. Ernst

A study of the ecstatic sayings (shathiyat) of early Sufis such as Abu Yazid al-Bistami and al-Hallaj, and of how later writers interpreted and defended them. Ernst also examines the legal and political responses to such utterances, including the trial of al-Hallaj.

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