Inspiring people to search for their own life path. With

this purpose in mind, Hans Kloosterman decided to write

From snob to Monk. He describes his career in the

corporate world, his entrepreneurship in the area recruitment,

his luxurious life style, several relationships and the

great turnaround. A car accident pointed him towards

his real life path: Buddhism and detachment.

Hans Kloosterman is a Tibetan Buddhist and studies at

the Tibetan Kagyu Vasjrayana Institute in the Belgian

town of H...

How were the Ni‘matullāhī masters successful in reviving Ni‘matullāhī Sufism in Shi‘ite Persia? This book investigates the revival of Ni‘matullāhī Sufi order after the death of the last Indian Ni‘matullāhī master, Riḍā ‘Alī Shāh (d. 1214/1799) in the Deccan.

After the fall of Safavids, the revival movement of the Ni‘matullāhī order began with the arrival in Persia of the enthusiastic Indian Sufi master, Ma‘ṣūm ‘Alī Shāh, during the last quarter of the eigh...