{"slug": "mysticism", "label": "Mysticism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45996", "qid": "Q45996", "description": "religious experience where the soul reaches its highest degree of union with the sacred during earthly existence", "entries": 21, "years": 19, "span": [858, 1320], "span_label": ["858 CE", "1320 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Births", "count": 11}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 8}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sufism", "label": "Sufism", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "abbasid-caliphate", "label": "Abbasid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baghdad", "label": "Baghdad", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "decapitation", "label": "Decapitation", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cistercians", "label": "Cistercians", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 858, "year_label": "858 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Mansur al-Hallaj, Persian mystic writer (d. 922)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129132#Births", "title": "858", "revid": 1341129132, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 894, "year_label": "894 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Ali ebn-e Sahl Esfahani, Persian mystic", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130298#Deaths", "title": "894", "revid": 1341130298, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 922, "year_label": "922 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26 – Mansur al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic writer, is sentenced to death for heresy after a long trial at Baghdad. 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