Early philosophical Ṣufism : the neoplatonic thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallā⁻ğ /

This study challenges the conventional image of the tenth-century Sufi mystic Al-Husayn Ibn Man??r al-?all?? (d. 929) as an anti-philosophical mystic. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on ?all??, this study is completely philosophical in nature, placing ?all?? within the tradition of Graeco-Arabic philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the pagan Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus. Excerpted from Early Philosophical Ṣūfism: The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr Al-Ḥallāğ by Saer El-Jaichi All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.