THE HISTORY AND TEACHINGS OF SHAṬṬĀRĪ’S PATH WITH AN EDITION OF “THE TREATISE OF SHAṬṬĀRIYYAH BY SHEYKH WAJIHUDDIN SHAṬṬĀRĪ

The Shatari method is one of the missing links in contemporary mysticism. In this way, new rhetoric and expensive works have been left, which have received less attention so far. The present study is a report on the beliefs, practical conduct, elders, and works of the Shatariyya sect, all of which are inherited in Persian. The founder of this sect is Shah Abdullah Shattar (AD 890 AH). He conveys the chain of his document to the Ahl al-Bayt (as) through Bayazid Bastami. This dissertation consists of two parts. The most important contents of the first part are devoted to the history, prominent shaykhs, the relics of the great men of this sect and the practical foundations of the Shatari dynasty. In this section, by addressing the theories of the people of Shattar about the unity of existence, we have also mentioned the influences that they have accepted from the school of Ibn Arabi. In the second part, we have corrected and researched the “Treatise of Shattariyya” by Sheikh Wajihuddin Shatari. In this treatise, he, who is one of the elders of the Shatariyya sect, has provided instructions in forty jobs (= dhikr) for the conduct of the Shattaris. A manuscript of this treatise is available in the National Library of Rasht, No. 625.