Mysticism

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

20 dated entries naming Mysticism, drawn from 18 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 (died 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 (died 1039)source

11th century

1099April 20 – Peter Bartholomew, French soldier and mysticsource

12th century

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

13th century

1207September 30 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (died 1273)source
1209Nizami Ganjavi, Persian mystic poet and writer (born 1141)source
1238Yunus Emre, Seljuk poet, mystic and writer (died 1328)source
1258Usman Serajuddin, Bengali Sufi scholar and mystic (died 1357)source
1271May 25 – Shah Jalal, Indian Sufi leader and mystic (died 1346)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
1273December 17 – Rumi, Persian scholar and mystic (born 1207)source

14th century

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