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Omar Ali Shah was a prominent exponent of modern sufism. He wrote a large number of books on the subject, and was head of a large number of sufi groups, particularly in Latin America, Europe and Canada. Sufism (Arabic: تصوÙ, tasÌ£awwuf), a part of Islamic studies, is a mystic tradition of Islam based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as it is gradually revealed to the heart and mind of the Sufi (one who practices Sufism). ...
He also published, with Robert Graves, a controversial translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Portrait of Robert Graves (circa 1974) by Rab Shiell Robert von Ranke Graves (July 24, 1895–December 7, 1985) was an English scholar, best remembered for his work as a poet and novelist. ... The Rubáiyát is a collection of poems (of which there are about a thousand) attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048-1123). ...
He was the brother of Idries Shah, another writer and teacher of Sufism. Omar Ali Shah - also called "Agha" - died on September 7th, 2005 in a hospital in Jerez, Spain. This article is a controversial issue. ...
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