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Mansur Al-Hallaj

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.

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