WRITER

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 563,314 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Mansur Al-Hallaj is the 204th most popular writer (down from 182nd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Iran (down from 24th 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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Among writers, Mansur Al-Hallaj ranks 204 out of 7,302. Before him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William Blake, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, and Anna Wintour. After him are Tristan Tzara, Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, and Anacreon.

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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, Al-Nayrizi, and Theodora.