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Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd

Islamic mystic

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influence on al-Ḥallāj

  • In al-Ḥallāj

    …al-Makkī, and Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd, were highly respected among the masters of Ṣūfism. Studying first under Sahl at-Tustarī, who lived a quiet and solitary life in the city of Tustar in Khuzistan, al-Ḥallāj later became a disciple of al-Markkī of Basra. During this period he married the daughter of…

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  • world distribution of Islam
    In Islamic world: Cultural flowering in Iraq

    … (died 874) and Abū al-Qāsim al-Junayd (died 910) had begun to pursue the experience of unity with God, first by being “drunk” with his love and with love of him and then by acquiring life-transforming self-possession and control. Masters (called sheikhs or pīrs) were beginning to attract disciples (murīds) to…

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