Omar Ali-Shah
| Omar Ali-Shah ओमर अली शाह عمر علی شاہ |
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| Born | 1922 |
| Died | 7 September 2005 (aged 82–83) Jerez, Spain |
| Occupation | Sufi teacher, writer |
| Subject | Sufism |
| Notable works | The Course of the Seeker Sufism for Today The Rules or Secrets of the Naqshbandi Order |
| Spouse | Anna Maria Ali-Shah |
| Children | Arif Ali-Shah & Amina Ali-Shah |
| Relatives | Shah family |
Omar Ali-Shah (Hindi: ओमर अली शाह, Urdu: عمر علی شاہ, translit. nq; 1922 – 7 September 2005) was a prominent exponent of modern Naqshbandi Sufism. He wrote a number of books on the subject, and was head of a large number of Sufi groups, particularly in Latin America, Europe and Canada.
Omar Ali-Shah was born in 1922 into a family that traces itself back to the Prophet Mohammed, and through the Sassanian Emperors of Persia to the year 122 BC. He was the son of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah of Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh, India and the older brother of Idries Shah, another writer and teacher of Sufism.
Omar Ali-Shah gained notoriety in 1967, when he published, together with Robert Graves, a new translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
This translation quickly became controversial; Graves was attacked for trying to break the spell of famed passages in Edward FitzGerald's Victorian translation, and L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves – which Ali-Shah claimed had been in his family for 800 years – was a "clumsy forgery". The manuscript was never produced for examination by critics; the scholarly consensus today is that the "Jan-Fishan Khan manuscript" was a hoax, and that the actual source of Omar Ali-Shah's version was a study by Edward Heron-Allen, a Victorian amateur scholar.
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