Massignon’s veneration of al-Hallaj contradicted mainstream Muslim judgment
Evidence
As far as Massignon was concerned, al-Hallaj’s performance of miracles was proof of his sainthood. (This sort of argument does not go down well with more conventional Orientalists.) Massignon’s cult of al-Hallaj as a central figure in the Islamic tradition led him to disparage later, more influential Sufis such as the thirteenth-century Andalusian Ibn al-‘Arabi. However, many Muslims in medieval times and, for that matter, today regard al-Hallaj as a heterodox and marginal figure. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 400