MANSUR HALLAJ Selected Poems of the Sufi Martyr Translation & Introduction Paul Smith The Perfect Master, poet & martyr, Mansur Hallaj (died 919), was born near Shiraz and tortured and executed in Baghdad for declaring: "I am the Truth (Anal Haq)." Much has been written about his famous (and infamous) statement, but few of his powerful, often mysteries and always deeply conscious and spiritual poems in Arabic have been translated before from his Divan...