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Hallaj : poems of a Sufi martyr /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, 858 or 859-922 (Author)
Other Authors: Ernst, Carl W., 1950- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Ḥallāj, al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr, > 858 or 859-922 > Translations into English.
Sufi poetry, Arabic > Early works to 1800.
Table of Contents:
  • Conventional love lyrics
  • The ardent renouncer
  • Gathering desire after separation
  • Strengthen me from the sickness
  • Dialogue of the heart with the truth
  • First the guest, then the house
  • Alchemical expressions
  • The sun of hearts
  • Religion of lovers, and religion of the people
  • The lover's punishment
  • The cure of love
  • Snakebite
  • The rule of lovers
  • Letter from the depth of spirit
  • Where is your match?
  • Mystical love poems
  • The veil of invocation
  • Give back to me my heart
  • Constant presence
  • The soul's punishment in the body's prison
  • Lovers' perfection
  • Nearness and distance are one
  • Transcendence
  • The promise of love
  • Removing the veil
  • Voyager of desire
  • While love remains secret
  • Veil of the heart
  • Eyes of the heart
  • Burden of the heart
  • Prison letter
  • In all directions
  • Something by my heart
  • Speech from the beloved
  • Hidden, present
  • I wonder at you and me
  • I found you by sciences
  • Open secret
  • Loss in ecstasy is loss
  • I didn't long
  • Martyrdom
  • Testament
  • All of me becomes a heart
  • Blameless
  • Dyed in blood
  • My drinking buddy
  • Kill me, friends
  • Punishment
  • Sacrifice
  • Infidel
  • The fate of the arrogant
  • You've watched me
  • The thread of desire
  • Metaphysics
  • Cramped
  • Illumination
  • God's explanation
  • Knower of the revelation
  • Temple and light
  • Reason's ears and eyes
  • How often were we hidden
  • Ecstasies and states
  • What wonderful relief
  • Riding on reality
  • The conscience and the path
  • The secret of mysteries
  • I've thought about religions
  • Name and meaning
  • Near and far
  • Intimacy with god
  • Vanishing ascension
  • I have control of things
  • Consider my apparition
  • Love is in primordial eternity.
  • Prayers and sermons
  • Which earth lacks you?
  • Beware consolation
  • This world deceives me
  • The steeds of separation
  • Pilgrim's prayer
  • How long do you contest
  • Intellect's advice
  • Song of death
  • Guidance of the lost
  • Riddles
  • There are four letters
  • Three letters without dots
  • You who are unaware
  • Return to god
  • Suggestion and expression
  • The spiritual path
  • Silence
  • You're the viewpoint
  • The condition of knowledge
  • Dualities
  • The wings of my intention
  • Keeping the secret
  • The claim of poverty
  • The secrets of truth
  • He opened the veil
  • Drunk and sober
  • Jealousy of god
  • Total fusion
  • Vision of the end
  • Union
  • Is it you or i?
  • His memory is mine
  • Mixing spirits
  • I wrote you
  • My unique one
  • Your place in my heart
  • Your spirit was mixed
  • I have pretended patience
  • Glory to the one
  • I am the one that i desire
  • You are flowing
  • I entered into creation
  • He chose me
  • I don't play with unity
  • Hiding
  • Secret of my secret
  • Theory of existence
  • Concentration and separation
  • How will union take place?
  • Perfect satisfaction.