The Sayyed Omar Ali-Shah was born in 1922 in a family Afghan, and engaged in the transmission of the Tradition soufie since generations. Older brother of the writer and main soufi Idries Shah, wire of Sirdar Ikbal Ali-Shah, itself author and main soufi, and back-back-small-wire of Jean Fishan-Khan, well-known Master soufi of Afghanistan. Omar Ali-Shah taught in Occident near small groups in several countries.

It translated the Persan one into French the garden of pinks of Saadi, delivers moral tales being used in the exercises soufis, and of Persan in English a version of the Rubayat of Omar Khayyâm.

He is the author of several books on the Sufism of which some are available in French translation. He always considered the Sufism like a possible therapy with the evils of the modern man, until presenting rather the first steps of work soufi in a psychological context than religious.

Omar Ali-Shah died the September 7th 2005.

Translations

• the garden of pinks , Saadi, Albin Michel, 1991, ISBN: 222604888X.

• Rubayat , of Omar Khayyâm, Albin Michel, 2005, ISBN: 2226159134.