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Contents
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• 1 Early life
• 2 Teachings, arrest and imprisonment
• 3 Works
• 4 Beliefs and principles
○ 4.1 Mystical universalism
○ 4.2 Spiritual meaning of the pilgrimage to Mecca
○ 4.3 Re-interpretation of the tawhid and desire for unification with God
• 5 Death
• 6 Contemporary views
• 7 Possible influence on Masonic guilds
• 8 Notes
• 9 Further reading
• 10 See also
• 11 External links
The supporters of Mansur have interpreted his statement as meaning, "God has emptied me of
everything but Himself." According to them, Mansur never denied God's Oneness and was a
strict monotheist. However, he believed that the actions of man when performed in total
accordance with God's pleasure, lead to a blissful unification with him. [7] His life was studied
extensively by the French scholar of Islam, Louis Massignon.
[edit] Possible influence on Masonic guilds
In his book The Sufis, the Afghan scholar Idries Shah suggested that Mansur al-Hallaj might
have been the origin of the character Hiram Abiff in the Freemasonic Master Mason ritual. The
link, he believes, was through the Sufi sect Al-Banna ("The Builders") who built the Al-Aqsa
Mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. This fraternity could have influenced some
early masonic guilds which borrowed heavily from the Oriental architecture in the creation of the
Gothic style.
[edit] Notes
1. ^ John Arthur Garraty, Peter Gay, The Columbia History of the World, Harper & Row, 1981, page 288,
ISBN 0-88029-004-8
2. ^ Glasse, Cyril, The New Encyclopeida of Islam, Alta Mira Press, (2001), p.164
3. ^ Jawid Mojaddedi, "ḤALLĀJ,ABU’L-MOḠIṮ ḤOSAYN b. Manṣur b. Maḥammā Bayżāwi" in
Encyclopedia Iranica [1]
4. ^ Mason, Herbert W. (1995). Al-Hallaj. RoutledgeCurzon. pp. 83. ISBN 070070311X.
5. ^ Kitaab al-Tawaaseen, Massignon Press, Paris, 1913, vi, 32.
6. ^ Van Cleef, Jabez L. (2008). The Tawasin Of Mansur Al-Hallaj, In Verse: A Mystical Treatise On
Knowing God, & Invitation To The Dance. CreateSpace. ISBN 1438224931. Quoted on the back cover of
the book. See 'look inside' on Amazon page.
7. ^ Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, Thompson Gale, (2004), p.290