Author of The Tawasin, Mansur Al-Hallaj was a Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism most famous for his apparent, but disputed, self-proclaimed divinity, his poetry and for his execution for heresy at the orders of the Abbasid Caliph Al-Muqtadir after a long, drawn-out investigation. The Afghan sufi scholar Idries Shah suggested that Mansur al-Hallaj might have been the origin of the character Hiram Abiff in the Freemasonic Master Mason ritual.

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The Tawasin of Mansur Al-Hallaj

<b>Louis Massignon</b> (25 July 1883 – 31 October 1962) was a Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding (Krokus 2012, p. 525). He was an influential figure in the twentieth century with regard to the Catholic church's relationship with Islam. He focused increasingly on the work of <a title="Mahatma Gandhi" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi">Mahatma Gandhi</a>, whom he considered a saint. He also played a role in Islam being accepted as an Abrahamic Faith among Catholics. Some scholars maintain that his research, esteem for Islam and Muslims, and cultivation of key students in Islamic studies largely prepared the way for the positive vision of Islam articulated in the <a title="Lumen gentium" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumen_gentium">Lumen gentium</a> and the <a title="Nostra aetate" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostra_aetate">Nostra aetate</a> at the <a title="Second Vatican Council" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council">Second Vatican Council</a> (Krokus 2012, p. 525). Although a <a title="Catholic Church" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church">Catholic</a> himself, he tried to understand Islam from within and thus had a great influence on the way Islam was seen in the West; among other things, he paved the way for a greater openness inside the Catholic Church towards Islam as it was documented in the pastoral Vatican II declaration <i>Nostra aetate</i>.

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