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Diwan

ديوان الحلاج (Diwan al-Hallaj)

La ejecución de al-Hallaj (1602)
byAl-Hallaj

Some seventy short poems, often of only a few lines, in which love of God is spoken in the language of union: "I am He whom I love, and He whom I love is I", "Your spirit is mingled with mine as wine with pure water". The famous "Kill me, my trusted friends, for in my killing is my life" turns execution into a passage to true life. They are verses of great economy, with paradoxes and plays on pronouns that show the dissolution of the self, and they formed the core of al-Hallaj's image as a martyr of love.

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Editions and translations · 6

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Authorship note

A collection of poems and fragments attributed to al-Hallaj, assembled by Massignon (Journal asiatique, 1931) from quotations scattered in Sufi works, chronicles and anthologies; Kamil Mustafa al-Shaybi's enlarged edition (1974) adds pieces of doubtful attribution. Part of the verses also circulates under other names.

Editions and translations

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English

العربية

  • Le Dîwân d'al-Hallâj

    Imprimerie Nationale (Journal asiatique), París, 1931

    Translation: Louis Massignon (ed. y trad.)

    Edición y traducción francesa; reeditada en 1955. Sin ISBN.

  • Diwan al-Hallaj

    Manshurat al-Jamal, 1997

    Translation: Kamil Mustafa al-Shaybi (ed.)

    Primera edición, Bagdad, 1974. Sin ISBN.

  • Diwan al-Hallaj

    Dar al-Jadid, Beirut, 1998

    Translation: Abduh Wazin (ed.)

    Sin ISBN.

Français

  • Poèmes mystiques

    Sindbad, 1985

    Translation: Sami-Ali

    ISBN 2727401205

    Reedición: Albin Michel, 1998 (9782226100559).

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Español

  • Diván — Al-Hallaj

    Diván

    Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo, Madrid, 2002

    ISBN 9788487198847

    Colección Poesía del Oriente y del Mediterráneo. Traductor no indicado en Open Library.

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Other works by Al-Hallaj

Sources

  • Massignon, Louis. La Passion de Husayn Ibn Mansûr Hallâj, martyr mystique de l'Islam, exécuté à Bagdad le 26 mars 922. 2.ª ed., 4 vols., París: Gallimard, 1975 (1.ª ed., Geuthner, 1922); trad. Herbert Mason, The Passion of al-Hallaj, Princeton University Press, 1982.

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