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Dakanī, Riḍā ʿAlī Shāh
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Riḍā ʿAlī Shāh Dakanī (b. c.1142–3/1730, d. 1214/1799–1800) was the last of the Deccan-based
aqṭāb (lit., poles, that is, heads of the order; Ar. pl. of
quṭb) in the Niʿmatallāhī Ṣūfī order, as recognised in the
salāsil (“chains” of spiritual authority, Ar. pl. of
silsila) of its current branches (Gramlich, 1:27–57). The leadership of the Niʿmatallāhī order had been transferred from Persia to the Deccan in the first half of the ninth/fifteenth century (Algar,
Niʿmat-Allāhiyya, 46), and would return there thanks to Riḍā ʿAlī Shāh (the Niʿmatallāhiyya, historically infl…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
