Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani


Mir Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani was a mystic who gave name to the Noorbakshia school of Islam. He wrote al Fiqh al-Ahwat and Kitab al-Aetiqadia.

Life

Nurbakhsh's real name was Muhammad bin Abdullah. His father was born in Qain and his grand father in al-Hasa, whence in some ghazals he styles himself as Lahsavi. His father migrated from Bahrain to Qain in Qahistan, where Nurbakhsh was born in 795 A.H.. Thus his full name as appeared in his prose works is Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani.
Nurbakhsh became a disciple of Sayyid Ishaq al-Khatlani, himself a disciple of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani. Through his writings Nurbakhsh made an attempt to bridge the gap between the orthodox Sunni'ism and Shi'ism and gave an Islamic Fiqh of religious moderation in his book titled Al-Fiqh al-Ahwat.
His tomb is in Suleqan near Tehran.

Works

Syed Muhammad Nurbakhsh wrote of about 150 works in Arabic or Persian.
  1. Al-Fiqh Al-Ahwat
  2. Kitab al-Aetiqadia
  3. Silsila Dhahab
  4. Risal fi Ilm Firasat or Insan-nama
  5. Kashf al-Haqaeeq
  6. Risala Maash al-Salikeen
  7. Makarim al-Akhlaq
  8. Silsila al-Auliya
  9. Risala Nooria or Nur al-Haq
  10. Risala Miraajia
  11. Risal al Huda
  12. Risala Irfani
  13. Risala Aqsam-e-Dil