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A SUFI MYSTICAL LOVE-STORY: AL-HALLAJ AND IBLIS (I)
A SUFI MYSTICAL LOVE-STORY: AL-HALLAJ AND IBLIS (I)

Author(s): Silviu Lupașcu
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Mystical Islam; Medieval Sufism; Iblis; Husayn Mansur Al-Hallaj;

Summary/Abstract: In Husayn Mansur Al-Hallaj’s (c. 858 – 922 A. D.; c. 244 – 309 A. H.) view, by spectacular revalorization, Iblis’s saga moves relatively further from the reverberations of damnation, to load itself with complex Sufi significances. Recognizing himself in the image of the brightest angel, cast away from the celestial hierarchy, the mystic equivocally hindered by judiciary and thanatological imperatives identifies himself seductively, impenitently, with the lonely angel that, although blamable, needs – more than anyone else – the protection of the One and Only God, the steady protection of His Presence. The experience of the rebellion-fall is thus assumed as a vocation of martyrdom.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 95-100
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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