Herbert Mason
recently retired as director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Socities and Civilizations at Boston University. His field of teaching was Arabic and Islamic studies, the presentation of worldviews in the major systems of religious thought and practice, and in the classical Mediterranean, Mesopotamian and early Celtic traditions of mythology and literature.
His books include Gilgamesh, A Verse Narrative and his four-volume translation of La Passion d'al-Hallaj by Louis Massignon. He is a consulting editor of Banipal.
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Banipal No 33 Autumn/Winter 2008
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