| List of Illustrations | |
| Foreword to the Abridged Edition | |
| Preface | |
| Ch. 1 | Biographical Outline | 1 |
| I | Prologue | 1 |
| II | Chronological Tableau of Hallaj's Life and Posthumous Survival | 9 |
| Ch. 2 | The Years of Apprenticeship: His Teachers and Friends | 24 |
| I | Native Milieu | 24 |
| II | The Cultural Milieu of Basra | 33 |
| III | Anecdotes from His Years of Apprenticeship: His Hajj (Ghutba) | 52 |
| Ch. 3 | Travels and Apostolate | 72 |
| I | His Modes of Travel: His Dress, His Itineraries, His Stopping Places | 72 |
| II | The Two Periods of Public Preaching in Ahwaz (272-273 and 279-281) | 74 |
| III | The Other Regions Traveled Through | 89 |
| IV | The Social Expression of Hallaj's Vocation, and His Contacts with the Cultural Renaissance of His Time | 101 |
| V | The Last Hajj of Hallaj and the Waqfa of Arafat | 114 |
| Ch. 4 | In Baghdad: Zealous Preaching and Political Indictment | 117 |
| I | Baghdad | 117 |
| II | Public Preaching in Baghdad | 132 |
| III | Political Indictment: The Dawat Ilal-Rububiya, Usurpation of the Supreme Power of God | 150 |
| Ch. 5 | The Indictment, The Court of Justice, and the Actors in the Drama | 157 |
| I | The Indictment and Ibn Dawud's Initiative | 157 |
| II | The Definition of Zandaqa, a Heresy Threatening the Security of the State | 177 |
| III | The Sovereign Authority and Its Delegation to a Court of Justice; the Court of Justice, Its Powers and Jurisdiction | 180 |
| Ch. 6 | The Trials | 208 |
| I | A Critical Note about the Historical Sources for the Trials | 208 |
| II | The First Trial (298/910 to 301/913) | 211 |
| III | The Eight Years of Waiting | 219 |
| IV | The Second Trial (308/921 to 309/922) | 227 |
| V | The Denouement and the Judgment of Condemnation | 256 |
| Ch. 7 | The Martyrdom | 280 |
| The Peripeteias of the Execution | 280 |
Hallaj: