Mansur al-Hallaj In Context of The Critics and Appreciations of Sufis
One of the most influential sufis in the history of sufism Mansur al-Hallaj, has earned a great
reputation for his ideas, extraordinary sufi attitude, and tragic death. Hallaj has sparked attention of
many scholars and intellectuals from different fields some of which criticized him very severely while
many of others hold him in a high regard. The majority of aforementioned critics and appreciations
have come from the community of sufi. Such as there were many sufis who praised or criticized him in his life, so too were there after his death. This article will deal with praises and critics of sufis lived between his life time to 14. century, about Hallaj’s sufistic ideas and personality and clarify his effects on mystics in this context. Keywords Mansur al-Hallaj, shatahat (estatic utterance), sufism, divine love, Ibn Ata, al-Junayd
al-Baghdadi.
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