Ramadan has been known for years in the Middle East to be the season when television producers compete into producing the best shows to be shown during the holy month. Yet this Ramadan season has seen ...

Zawyeh Art Gallery, the organizer and sole venue of the Ramallah Art Fair, wants it known that the name of the event is a bit of a misnomer.

The new Egyptian play Ma’sat al Hallaj (The Tragedy of al Hallaj) written by the highly-acclaimed poet Salah Abdel Sabour and directed by Ahmed Abdel-Aziz, is currently staged at al Tali’a Theater in ...

‘An-al-Haq’ (I am the truth) – this statement would be the death of Mansur Al-Hallaj. A Sufi poet, teacher and philosopher, Hallaj was executed on the orders of an Abbasside caliph for uttering these ...

KARACHI, March 14 Recalling the strange life, turbulent times and epic death of Mansur al-Hallaj - the tenth century Muslim mystic sent to the gallows for professing beliefs deemed heretical by the ...

I entered unannounced into Hallaj’s room one day (says Ibn Fatik); someone had been in before me. Hallaj was in prayer, and his brow pressed to the ground, he was saying: O Thou Whose closeness girds ...

Persian mystic, teacher and poet Mansur al-Hallaj says in a verse: ‘Ain iimaan hai Ana ‘l-Haqq ka tarana lekin/Hai yahi kufra agar deeda-eMansurna ho’ – It’s quintessential faith/devotion if one ...

Saints and mystics have shown us the value of faith and forgiveness. It is also no surprise that many of these enlightened ones have met their end at the hands of ignorant humanity that either could ...