Shah Nimatullah Wali

Shah Nimatullah Wali
Born1330-1430
Aleppo
Venerated inSunni Islam[1]
Major shrineShah Nematollah Vali Shrine
Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine in Mahan, Iran.

Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali (Persian: شاه نعمت‌الله ولی Shāh Ne'matullāh-i Valī), also spelled as Ne'matollah and Ni'matallah was the spiritual leader or Qutb of the Ni'matullah Order in Iran[2] from the 14th and 15th centuries. He is revered by Sunni Islam as a saint[3][4] and by the Ni'matullāhī tariqa, who consider him their founder.[5]

  1. ^ Calder, Norman, Jawid Mojaddedi, and Andrew Rippin. Classical Islam: A sourcebook of religious literature. Routledge, 2012. p. 262
  2. ^ "Maḥmūd Gāvān". July 2015.
  3. ^ Calder, Norman, Jawid Mojaddedi, and Andrew Rippin. Classical Islam: A sourcebook of religious literature. Routledge, 2012. p. 262
  4. ^ Minorsky, V. "Jihān-Shāh Qara-Qoyunlu and His Poetry (Turkmenica, 9)." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 16, No. 2 (1954): 271-97. https://www.jstor.org/stable/609169.
  5. ^ Liyajat Nathani Takim. Shi'ism in America. (New York: New York University Press, 2009), p. 43.