Shah Nimatullah Wali

Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine in Mahan, Iran.

Shāh Nimatullāh or Shāh Ni'matullāh Wali, (Persian: شاه نعمت الله 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[1] from the 14th and 15th centuries. He is revered by Sunni Islam as a saint[2] and by the Ni'matullāhī tariqa, who consider him their founder.[3]

  1. ^ "Maḥmūd Gāvān". July 2015.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Liyajat Nathani Takim. Shi'ism in America. (New York: New York University Press, 2009) p. 43

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