I Want Fire
The Life, Love, and Martyrdom of Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani — Islam's Most Fearless MysticBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 24m
About this audiobook
There is a kind of love the world will punish you for having.
You know the moment when the true thing was about to come out and you chose the safer sentence instead—and nothing happened, and that was the problem.
In twelfth-century Persia, Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani never learned to compromise. A jurist who argued that love is a way of knowing, he named the court scholars who sold out to power and defended the radical cost of devotion.
I Want Fire is the narrative biography of a scholar who asked for truth and was killed at thirty-three.
• Follow his argument that love is an instrument of knowledge
• Sit in his Baghdad cell as he answers charges of heresy
• See the political machinery behind a trial that shook the tradition
This is for anyone who was told their love was too much. He asked for fire, and the asking outlasted everyone who tried to stop it.
Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Philosophy
Length9 hrs 24 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 12, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. The Arrest
2Prologue
1412. Baghdad Prison
31. The City That Made Him
1513. The Exile's Complaint
42. The Prodigy
1614. The Return
53. The Teacher Who Changed Everything
1715. I Want Fire
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64. The Flame of al-Hallaj
1816. May 6, 1131
75. Love as a Way of Knowing
1917. The Demolished Tomb
86. The Substance of the Judges
2018. The Second Hallaj
97. Three Days, One Book
2119. Love That Outlives Fire
108. The Defense of the Devil
2220. What He Knew
119. The Letters
23Epilogue
1210. The Politics of God
2421. Author's Note
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