Rebirth of Mansur al-Hallaj in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick - A new interpretation

Abstract

A text is agape to extensive interpretations and different people interpret a text distinctively. Suchlike is the predicament of Herman Melville's magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels "Moby-dick." The relationship between Captain Ahab and the whale Moby-Dick all along is sketched in abounding ways like egoistic hunger for revenge, tussle between good and evil, doom of a person who defies God's authority and at the same time scads of references pertaining to Ahab like Oedipus Rex, King Lear or King Ahab mentioned in the Bible revealed. This paper attempts to interpret the aforementioned relation (between Captain Ahab and Moby-Dick) as an odyssey of a Sanit who endeavors to seek the knowledge of unknown but in course of his journey does something which begets his end in the light of biography of Islamic Sufi saint Mansur al-Hallaj.