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ajiss-2178	Irfani, Suroosh 	The Enigma of Hallaj: Herbert W. Mason, Al-Hulluj (Surrey: Curzon Press, 1995), 106 pp.	1998.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1225	46	51	However, as Mason points out, far from being viewed as an ecstatic eccentric on the fringe of Islam, many Islamic traditionalists backed Hallaj in his mission “to reanimate ritual observance and share through public preaching his deeper understanding” of the relationship between Man and God. A professor of history and religion at Boston University, Mason has been conducting research on Hallaj for the past thirty years, a devotion he might have inherited from his former teacher Louis Massignon, the French scholar who started work on Hallaj’s thoughts and ideas in 1907, culminating in four volumes posthumously published in 1975 as L a p s - sion d’ul-Hulluj.	cache/ajiss-2178.pdf	txt/ajiss-2178.txt