3 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 Muslim theologian and philosopher — author of The Incoherence of the Philosophers and The Revival of the Religious Sciences — who attacked Aristotelian philosophy as incompatible with Islam and who integrated Sufism into orthodox Sunni theology — one of the most influential Muslim thinkers.
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.