Omar Ali-Shah
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Omar Ali-Shah was a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi Sufism. He wrote a number of books on the subject, and was head of a large number of sufi groups, particularly in Latin America, Europe and Canada.
He was born in 1922 into a family that traces itself back to the year 122 BC through the Prophet Mohammed and to the Sassanian Emperors of Persia. He was the son of Sirdar Ikbal Ali-Shah of Sardhana and the brother of Idries Shah, another writer and teacher of Sufism. For many years, he worked towards making the ideas of Sufism more accessible to the Western mind.
As the custodians and modern exponents of the 1200-year old teaching of inner wisdom and harmonious conscious development often referred to as "The Tradition", the Shah family claims to have intentionally impacted Western thought by collecting, preserving, and presenting this valuable and timeless material.
Omar Ali-Shah also published, with Robert Graves, a controversial translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (ISBN 0140034080, ISBN 0912358386).
Omar Ali-Shah – also called "Agha" – died on September 7, 2005 in a hospital in Jerez, Spain.
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- Omar Ali Shah (1998). The Rules or Secrets of the Naqshbandi Order. Tractus Books. ISBN 2-909347-09-5.
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