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Professor; William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of History and Religious
Thought; Professor of History and Religion, College of Arts and
Sciences.
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University.
In addition to covering the special field of Arabic and Islamic
studies, Professor Mason's teaching includes the presentation of
world views as synthesized in the major systems of religious thought
and practice, and in the classical Mediterranean and Mesopotamian
and early Celtic traditions of mythology and literature. His best-known
work is Gilgamesh, A Verse Narrative, which was nominated
for the National Book Award in 1971. Other publications include
his four-volume translation of La Passion d'al-Hallaj of Louis
Massignon for the Bollingen Series (1983); and also Hallaj
(1995). Among his other books are Reflections on the Middle East
Crisis (1970), Two Statesmen of Medieval Islam (1971),
The Death of al-Hallaj: A Dramatic Narrative (1979), and
Moments in Passage: A Memoir (1979). He has also published
the novels Summer Light (1980), and Haythu Taltaqí
al-Anhar (Where the Rivers Meet, 1988; United Arab Emirates,
1998); the novella Gilpin's Point (1980). Several of his
books have been translated into French, German, Persian, Arabic,
Urdu, and Japanese, among other languages.
Courses
RN 207 Religion in Literature
RN
341/641 Sufism (Spring 2005)
RN 543 Spiritual Affinities in Practice
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