Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani
Mir Sayyid Muhammad Nurbakhsh Qahistani was a mystic who laid the foundation of the Noorbakshia school of Islam. He authored several books like 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 grandfather 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.