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As a follow-up to a thread on the #GunābādīNiʿmatullāhī order and #ShiiSufism some thoughts on Maʿṣūm ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1926) the famous 'historian' of Sufism 1/ 
His father Raḥmat ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1861) came at the end of a scholarly lineage of #Niʿmatullāhī Shaykhs: Muḥammad Jaʿfar Majdhūb ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1824), Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Shīrvānī Mast ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1838), and Raḥmat ʿAlī Shāh himself all of whom had good relations at court2/
Majdhūb ʿAlī Shāh was closely linked to the traditional seminarian philosophers in Isfahan and Tehran and wrote a scholarly polemic against Henry Martyn (d. 1812) called Mirʾāt al-ḥaqq ar.rasekhoon.net/mashahir/show/…مجذوب-علي-شاه 2a/
More #loot from #Iran I first came across this work of the #Nurbakhshi Sufi #AbdalRahimDamavandi (d. after 1161/1748) in an edition in #AnthologiedesPhilosophesIraniens by Sayyid Jalalodin Ashtiyani (d. 2005) 1/
Written in #Karbala and also reflecting a somewhat #Uvaysi approach to the master disciple relationship, the #Miftah is a classic of 18th C #Shii Sufism and is studied on pp. 158-168 of Ata Anzali’s recent book 2/
I have also discussed elements of it in my article in this volume global.oup.com/academic/produ… 3/
