Mansur Al-Hallaj
Poet, Author
0858 – 0922
Who was Mansur Al-Hallaj?
Mansur al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism, who wrote exclusively in Arabic. He is most famous for his poetry, accusation of heresy and for his execution at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation.
He is a also prominent figure in Alevism and Bektashism, famous for his saying: "I am the Truth", which is confused by orthodox muslims for a claim to divinity. Sufi muslims link this quote to Quran verse 50:16: "And We have already created man and know what his soul whispers to him, and We are closer to him than [his] jugular vein".
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