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Also Known As Abū al-Mughīth al-Ḥusayn ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj
Born c.858 • Iran
Died March 26, 922 • Baghdad • Iraq
Subjects Of Study Sufism
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
Bedreddin
Ottoman theologian
al-Muḥāsibī
Muslim theologian
al-Ghazālī
Muslim jurist, theologian, and mystic
ad-Damīrī
Muslim theologian
Colenso, detail of an oil painting by Samuel Sidley, 1866; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Colenso
Anglican bishop of Natal, South Africa
al-Mahdī
Sudanese religious leader
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Aşık Paşa
Turkish author
al-Aḥsāʾī
Muslim religious leader
mausoleum of Ahmed Yesevi
Ahmed Yesevi
Turkish author
Saʿd od-Dīn Maḥmūd Shabestarī
Islamic mystic
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Syrian author
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre
Turkish poet
ʿAbd al-Salām Yāsīn
Moroccan religious leader
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam
ʿAlī: Arabic calligraphy
ʿAlī
Muslim caliph
Averroës (Ibn Rushd)
Averroës
Muslim philosopher
Ibn Baṭṭūṭah
Ibn Battuta
Muslim explorer and writer