The Twelfth-Century Iranian Mystic `Ayn al-Qudat al-Hamadhani (d. 1131) wrote vividly of his explorations of death as a state of consciousness, which he experienced while alive. This state and his vis
Papan-Matin (Iranian studies, U. of Washington) and Fishbein (Arabic, U. of California, Los Angeles) offer the first critical edition of the unpublished manuscript of the autobiography of one of the m
