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.
Represents the fana (annihilation) dimension of Sufism — the total dissolution of the personal self in divine union — and his shathiyat (ecstatic utterances) demonstrate that genuine mystical experience produces paradoxes that cannot be expressed in conventional theological language.
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