Omar Ali-Shah

Omar Ali-Shah (Hindi: ओमर अली शाह, Urdu: عمر علی شاہ, romanized: nq; 1922 – 7 September 2005) was a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi Sufism.

Omar Ali-Shah was born in 1922 into a family that traces itself back to the Prophet Mohammed, and through the Sassanian Emperors of Persia to the year 122 BC.

[2][3][4] This translation quickly became controversial; Graves was attacked for trying to break the spell of famed passages in Edward FitzGerald's Victorian translation, and L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at the University of Edinburgh, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves – which Ali-Shah claimed had been in his family for 800 years – was a "clumsy forgery".

[8] Their respective movements – Idries Shah's "Society for Sufi Studies" and Omar Ali-Shah's "Tradition" – were similar, giving some prominence to psychology in their teachings.

[9] Omar Ali-Shah – called "Agha" by his students – gave lectures which have been recorded for distribution in printed format.