The Sufi Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj is executed in Baghdad after a long trial, condemned for utterances including 'I am the Truth'; his martyrdom becomes Sufism's enduring meditation on union with God and the law's boundary.
Tagged: Persecution Muslim Sufi Orders
The Event
- Date
- 922 (exact)
- Era
- Abbasid; Standard periodization of Islamic history
- Location
- Baghdad; today Baghdad, Iraq
- Traditions
- Islam
- Streams
- Sufi Orders
- Key figures
- Al-Hallaj
- Key texts
- Kitab al-Tawasin
Primary Sources
- Akhbar al-Hallaj
Secondary Sources
- Esposito, Islam: The Straight Path (Oxford, 4th ed. 2011)
- Berkey, The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge, 2003)
Provenance: HIST-0225; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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