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Mansur Al-Hallaj

858 - 922

Mansur Al-Hallaj

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 Sufism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mansur Al-Hallaj has received more than 555,235 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Mansur Al-Hallaj is the 182nd most popular writer (up from 186th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Iran (down from 21st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Iranian Writer.

Mansur al-Hallaj is most famous for his claim that he was the incarnation of God. He was executed for blasphemy in 922.

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560k
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72.93
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
45
Languages Editions (L)
7.89
Effective Languages (L*)
2.55
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Among writers, Mansur Al-Hallaj ranks 182 out of 5,755. Before him are Lope de Vega, Diogenes Laërtius, Dale Carnegie, Constantine VII, John the Evangelist, and Juvenal. After him are Georges Simenon, Sigrid Undset, François-René de Chateaubriand, John Steinbeck, Orhan Pamuk, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 858, Mansur Al-Hallaj ranks 1. After him are Al-Battani, Áed mac Cináeda, and Richard, Duke of Burgundy. Among people deceased in 922, Mansur Al-Hallaj ranks 1. After him are Fortún Garcés of Pamplona, Theodora, and Al-Nayrizi.