born 0441; 858, 1E6C; 016B; r, Iran
died March 26, 922, Baghdad, Iraq
Muslim teacher of Sufism .
Brought up in the Iraqi city of W 0101; si 1E6D; , he was drawn to asceticism at an early age and studied with a series of Sufi teachers. From 0441; 895 he traveled extensively as a teacher and preacher, making three pilgrimages to Mecca and gathering a large following. These travels and his popularity alienated his Sufi masters, and his demands for reform earned him the enmity of non-Sufi Muslims. Accused of fomenting rebellion and claiming to be divine, he was arrested, imprisoned ( 0441; 911922), and eventually crucified and tortured to death.