قصۂ منصور (مطبوعہ ۱۸۵۱ء) از احمد علی شیو راجپوری

Manṣūr al-Ḥallāj (857-922) was a great martyr-mystic of the history of Sufism who, irrespective of various controversial remarks about his personality and concepts, still has a profound influence on the mystical thought of the internationally-known intellectuals and religious thinkers. Much has been written on the different aspects of this mystic in almost all the languages of the world. No doubt, Louis Massignon (d. 1962), a reputed French orientalist, "discovered" al-Ḥallāj and devoted about half a century to bring to light the different aspects of al-Ḥallāj's life and writings. Aḥmad `Alī Shivrājpūrī wrote Qiṣṣah’-e-Manṣūr in Urdu which was published in 1851. Luckily, this very unique poetic tract is available in the Sprenger Collection of the Berlin State Library