Al-Hallaj

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Mansour al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج, romanized: Abū 'l-Muġīth al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj), also known as Mansour Hallaj (Persian: منصور حلاج, romanized: Mansūr-e Hallāj; c. 858 – 26 March 922; c. 244 AH – 309 AH), was a Muslim Iranian mystic, poet, preacher, and teacher of Sufism, and one of the most controversial figures in Islamic history. During his lifetime he attracted a large popular following and was acclaimed as a saint by many ordinary believers, while Muslim jurists condemned him as a heretic. Most of his contemporary Sufis likewise disapproved of his actions, although he later became a major figure in the Sufi tradition. Al-Hallaj was associated with the doctrine of fanāʾ, the extinction of individual consciousness, and with ideas described as ḥulūl, or union and identity with God. His mystical teaching sought to overcome the perceived gulf between the human being and God, expressing the relationship between the mystic and the divine in terms of an...

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