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Mansour al-Hallaj (Arabic: ابو المغيث الحسين بن منصور الحلاج, romanized: Abū 'l-Muġīth al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj) or Mansour Hallaj (Persian: منصور حلاج, romanized: Mansūr-e Hallāj) (c. 858 – 26 March 922) (Hijri c. 244 AH – 309 AH) was a Persian mystic, poet, and teacher of ...
Al-Ḥallāj was a controversial writer and teacher of Islamic mysticism (Ṣūfism). Because he represented in his person and works the experiences, causes, and aspirations of many Muslims, arousing admiration in some and repression on the part of others, the drama of his life and death has been.
Mar 21, 2021 · Sufi Biography: Mansoor Al-Hallaj. The most controversial figure in the history of Islamic mysticism, Abu l-Moghith al-Hosain ibn Mansur al-Hallaj was born C. 244 (858) near al-Baiza in the province of Fars.
Nov 26, 2001 · Al-Hallaaj was al-Husayn ibn Mansoor al-Hallaaj, who was known as Abu Mugheeth, or Abu ‘Abd-Allaah. He grew up in Waasit, or it was said in Tastar, and he was connected with a group of Sufis including Sahl al-Tastari, al-Junayd, Abu’l-Hasan al-Noori and others.
al-Ḥallāj, (born c. 858, Ṭūr, Iran—died March 26, 922, Baghdad, Iraq), Muslim teacher of Sufism. Brought up in the Iraqi city of Wāsiṭ, he was drawn to asceticism at an early age and studied with a series of Sufi teachers.
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May 18, 2018 · Al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj (857-922) was a Persian Moslem mystic and martyr. He reinforced ecstatic and pantheistic tendencies already present in the Islamic third century, and they became a continuing part of Islamic life after al-Hallaj's teaching and martyrdom.
HALLAJ, AL- (858-922) The mystic and martyr Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj was born in 858 in Bayda, Persia. An Arabized Iranian whose grandfather was a Zorastrian, al-Hallaj's father, a cottonwool carder ( hallaj) by trade, converted to Islam.
Al Halláj was a legendary Iranian Sufi master who lived between 858 – 922 AD. As a youngster Al Hallaj memorized the Quran and would often retreat from worldly pursuits to join other mystics in study. He devoted his life to the contemplation of the divine and became a great Sufi mystic poet.
Aug 6, 2019 · Encompassing the whole milieu of early Islamic civilization, this major work of Western orientalism explores the meaning of the life and teaching of the tenth-century mystic and martyr, al-Hallaj.
