Louis Massignon et la mystique musulmane

A la faveur d'elements historiques et biographiques inedits, cet ouvrage offre une analyse approfondie de l' uvre consacree par Louis Massignon (1883-1962) a la mystique musulmane. Il souligne l'importance de certaines decouvertes de l'islamologue pour les etudes islamiques concernant la periode formative du soufisme. Plus encore, ce livre sonde le regard porte par Massignon sur les vocations mystiques en islam et examine a la lumiere des travaux recents sa vision de la saintete et de la figure d'al-Hallaj (mort en 309/922). Par suite, ce travail fait emerger la question de la posture du chercheur en sciences des religions ainsi que celle des precautions a adopter afin que sa subjectivite ne reconstruise pas le reel, mais l'eclaire et le revele. This book provides an extensive analysis of the work of Louis Massignon (1883-1962) on Muslim mysticism, based on previously unpublished historical and biographical elements. It highlights the importance for Islamic Studies of certain discoveries made by the Islamicist concerning the formative period of Sufism. More than that, this book probes Massignon's view of mystical vocations in Islam and examines, in the light of recent work, his vision of "e;holiness"e; and the figure of al-Hallaj (d. 309/922). This work opens, more broadly, the question of the posture of the researcher in the study of religion and the precautions to be adopted so that their subjectivity does not reconstruct reality, but illuminates and reveals it.