Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism
858 CE
to 922 CE
Mansur al-Hallaj (c. 858 – March 26, 922) is a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism, who writes 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.