2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Persian Sufi mystic from Bistam — known as Bayazid — who produced the most extreme expressions of the experience of divine union in Islamic mysticism, including 'Glory be to me, how great is my majesty' — utterances that led to accusations of heresy and distinguished him as the founder of ecstatic (sukr) Sufism.
Persian Sufi mystic who was executed by the Abbasid caliphate for uttering 'Ana al-Haqq' ('I am the Truth/God') — refusing to recant — and whose death became the defining martyrdom of Islamic mysticism, generating centuries of commentary on the relationship between divine union and orthodox doctrine.