Masters of the Path: A History of the Masters of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order
Javad Nurbakhsh
This is a concise biographical account of each of the Masters of the largest modern Sufi Order (Nimatullahi) from the Prophet Mohamed to contemporary times.
Divergent sufi orders are but branches of a single tree of loving-kindness. If one order denies or repudiates another, it only repudiates itself. What follows is the sisilah or chain of the Nimatuallhi Sufi Order – the initiatory succession of sufi masters whose esoteric teaching is transmitted and continued today by our current master, Reza ‘Ali Shah (Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh).
Reza ‘Ali Shah (Dr. Alireza Nurbakhsh)
Nur ‘Ali Shah II (Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh)
Munis ‘Ali Shah
Sadiq ‘Ali Shah
Wafa ‘Ali Shah
Munawwar ‘Ali Shah
Rahmat ‘Ali Shah
Mast ‘Ali Shah
Majdhub ‘Ali Shah
Husayn ‘Ali Shah
Nur ‘Ali Shah
Ma’sum ‘Ali Shah Deccani
Rida ‘Ali Shah Deccani
Shams al-Din Deccani
Mir Mahmud Deccani
Mir Shah Shams al-Din Muhammad III
Mir Kamal al-Din Atiyyatullah II
Mir Shah Shams al-Din Muhammad II
Shah Habib al-Din Muhibbullah II
Mir Shah Shams al-Din Muhammad I
Mir Shah Burhan al-Din Khalilullah II
Shah Kamal al-Din Atiyyatullah
Shah Habib al-Din Muhibbullah I
Shah Khalilullah I
Nur al-Din Shah Nimatullah Wali
Abdullah Yafi
Salih Barbari
Najm al-Din Kamal Kufi
Abu’l Sa’ud al-Andalusi
Abu’l-Barakat
Abu’l-Fadl al-Baghdadi
Ahmad al-Ghazali
Abu Bakr Nassaj al-Tusi
Abu’l-Qasim ‘Ali al-Gurgani
Abu Uthman al-Maghribi
Abu Ali ‘Katib
Abu ‘Ali Rudbari
Abu’l-Qasim al-Junayd
Sari al-Saqati
Ma’ruf al-Karkhi
Da’ud al-Ta’i
Habib al-‘Ajami
Hasan al-Basri
Ali