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Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh was the head of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order, a very large and respected Sufi order especially centered in Iran.

Dr. Nurbakhsh was born in Kerman, Iran. As a young man, he became a medical doctor. He later received a psychiatric degree from the Sorbonne and helped to establish modern psychiatric practices in Iran.

While still a young man, Dr. Nurbakhsh was named the master of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order. He eventually took up residence in Tehran, where he led a revival of both the Nimatullahi Sufi Order and interest in Sufi practice in general. During the 1950s and 1960s, many western seekers and scholars traveled to Tehran to partake in the Sufi revival inspired by Dr. Nurbakhsh.

In 1979, because of the fundamentalist Islamic Revolution in Iran, Dr. Nurbakhsh went into voluntary exile in the West. Although he settled in England, he traveled and taught throughout the United States and Europe, establishing many Sufi centers in the West (as he had done before throughout Iran).

He died in October, 2008 and is buried in Banbury, Oxfordshire in England.

Poems by Javad Nurbakhsh

	Come!
	Desiring You
	The Beloved
	The Image of Existence
	The Pain of Love

Recommended Books

	The Crucible of Light: Sufi Terms Illuminated, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	Discourses on the Sufi Path, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	Divani Nurbakhsh: Sufi Poetry, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	Jesus in the Eyes of the Sufis, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	The Path: Sufi Practices, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	The Psychology of Sufism, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	Sufi Symbolism: The Nurbakhsh Encyclopedia of Sufi Terminology, Vol 1, by Javad Nurbaksh / Terry Graham Amazon.com
	Sufism I: Meaning, Knowledge and Unity, by Javad Nurbaksh Amazon.com
	The Truths of Love: Sufi Poetry, by Javad Nurbakhsh Amazon.com

Related Links:

	Dr. Javad Nurbaksh - The Nimatullahi Sufi Order http://www.nimatullahi.org/nurbakhsh Online biography, links to articles and discourses by Dr. Nurbakhsh, and a video interview from early 2008.
	Sufi Poetry http://www.sufism.ru/eng/poetry.htm Several poems by Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh

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