Explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and martyr: Al-Hallaj. This book describes not only his experience but also the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization. "An incomparable study of the religious forces, the social and political life, and the whole culture of the Islamic world within which [this saint] lived and died."---Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies