al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī: References & Edit History
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Important Western-language studies are Louis Massignon, Essay on the Origins of the Technical Language of Islamic Mysticism (1994), a work originally published in French in the 1950s that examines al-Ḥasan’s place in Islāmic mysticism; and H. Ritter, “Ḥasan al-Baṣrī,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new ed., vol. 3, pp. 247–248 (1970), with a bibliography.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 12, 2024 | ||
| Fixed typo. | Nov 27, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclop�dia Iranica - Biography of Ḥasan Baṣri. | Apr 05, 2018 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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