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Javad Nurbakhsh Iran & England (1926 - 2008) Timeline Muslim / Sufi Poems by Javad Nurbakhsh Books - Links |
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
Recommended Books: Javad Nurbakhsh
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