The Martyr-Mystic Hallāj in Sindhi Folk-Poetry Notes On a Mystical Symbol

Abstract

That was the refrain of a folksong which heard in Garhiyasin (Upper Sind, Pakistan) in March I96I, and was deeply impressed by the fact that everybody in the remotest corners of the Indus valley seemed to know the name of the great martyr mystic of Islam, Husain ibn Mansir al-Hallaj, the wool-carder, who had been put to death March 26, 922 in Bagdad, and whose extactic cry ana'l-haqq, I am the creative Truth, has become one of the most famous theopathic utterances (shath) in the history of Islamic mysticism. L. Massignon 2) who has devoted almost his whole life to the study