For some, Mansur al-Hallaj was a magician, a heretic and a lunatic, who publicly claimed to be one with the One and deserved to be executed for heresy. But to his sympathizers he was a Sufi saint, who ...

I entered unannounced into Hallaj’s room one day (says Ibn Fatik); someone had been in before me. Hallaj was in prayer, and his brow pressed to the ground, he was saying: O Thou Whose closeness girds ...

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‘An-al-Haq’ (I am the truth) – this statement would be the death of Mansur Al-Hallaj. A Sufi poet, teacher and philosopher, Hallaj was executed on the orders of an Abbasside caliph for uttering these ...

The urs [death anniversary] of the sonorous Sufi poet of the 18th-19th century, Sachal Sarmast, starts in just a few days on the 13th day of Ramazan, in the small, glowing village of Daraza Sharif ...

Once on seeing a thief executed in Baghdad, Imam Junaid went and kissed his feet. When onlookers asked for an explanation, the Sufi scholar replied: “A thousand compassions be upon him for he proved ...

Once on seeing a thief executed in Baghdad, Imam Junaid went and kissed his feet. When onlookers asked for an explanation, the Sufi scholar replied: “A thousand compassions be upon him for he proved ...