Mysticism

religious experience where the soul reaches its highest degree of union with the sacred during earthly existence

21 dated entries naming Mysticism, drawn from 19 separate years between 858 CE and 1320 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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9th century

858Mansur al-Hallaj, Persian mystic writer (d. 922)source
894Ali ebn-e Sahl Esfahani, Persian mysticsource

10th century

922March 26 – Mansur al-Hallaj, a Persian mystic writer, is sentenced to death for heresy after a long trial at Baghdad. Having supported reform in the Abbasid Caliphate, he has been seen as a rabble-rouser, and is flogged, mutilated and executed (by beheading).source
922March 26 – Mansur al-Hallaj, Persian mystic writersource
969Nathar Shah, Tamil mystic and preacher (d. 1039)source

11th century

1099April 20 – Peter Bartholomew, French soldier and mysticsource

12th century

1121Ascelina, French Cistercian nun and mystic (d. 1195)source
1134Gerardo dei Tintori, Italian mystic and founder (d. 1207)source
1150Hermann Joseph, German priest and mystic (d. 1241)source
1175January 24 – Ibn Asakir, Syrian historian and mystic (b. 1105)source
1193Juliana of Liège, Belgian nun and mystic (d. 1258)source

13th century

1207September 30 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (d. 1273)source
1209Nizami Ganjavi, Persian mystic poet and writer (b. 1141)source
1231December 11 – Ida of Nivelles, Flemish nun and mysticsource
1238Yunus Emre, Seljuk poet, mystic and writer (d. 1328)source
1258Usman Serajuddin, Bengali Sufi scholar and mystic (d. 1357)source
1271May 25 – Shah Jalal, Indian Sufi leader and mystic (d. 1346)source
1273December 17 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (b. 1207)source
1273October 6 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and theologian, writes Summa Theologica, a master work of Catholic theology, leaving it unfinished, after having a mystical experience during Mass.source

14th century

1309January 4 – Angela of Foligno, Italian nun, mystic and writer (b. 1248)source
1320Lalleshwari (Lal Ded), Indian mystic and poet (d. 1392)source