Alireza Nurbakhsh (Persian: علیرضا نوربخش; born 12 August 1955) is the present Master (pir) of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order.
He assumed this position after the death of his father, Javad Nurbakhsh on October 10, 2008.
[1] [2] [3] Nurbakhsh was born in a small town near Bam, the capital city of Kerman province in Iran.
He lived in the Nimatullahi Khanqah (Sufi Center) in Tehran until he left Iran for United States in 1977.
He continued his post graduate studies at University of Wisconsin, Madison and received a PhD in philosophy in 1988.