| Author Quoted | Louis Massignon |
| Title Quoted | Akhbar al-Hallaj. Texte ancien relatif à la predication et au supplice du mystique musulman al-Hosayn B. Mansour al-Hallaj |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/03/18 |
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| Quotation | Reading [Al] Hallaj in Massignon's translation-about which I wrote him a letter today. Hallaj is right, and our piety is so safe as to be impious. What a difference between the Greeks and this Moslem. I mean the classical Greeks. But in Aeschylus there's the same kind of fire none the less! |
| Quotation Source | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 380 |
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