Composer, vocalist, and performer Parvaz Homay performed the Hallaj Opera at the Niavaran Complex in northern Tehran. The opera is story of Mansur al-Hallaj (858-922 AD) a Persian mystic, poet and teacher of Sufism. He is better known for his saying “I am the Truth” (Ana ‘l-Haqq in Arabic), which many saw as a claim to divinity, while others interpreted it as an instance of mystical annihilation of the ego which allows God to speak through the individual. Fearing Hallaj’s thoughts and ideas…