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" Dakanī, Riḍā ʿAlī Shāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van den Bos, Matthijs E. W.
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English
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1061346
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ALei1743
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van den Bos, Matthijs E. W.
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Dakanī, Riḍā ʿAlī Shāh - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van den Bos, Matthijs E. W.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,131 words)
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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
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Islam.
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ALei1743.pdf
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