This intriguingly titled book on the #Shii nature of #IbnArabi is by Muhammad Hasan Vakili (b. 1980) a young mullah based in #Mashhad who defends Sufism and is associated with the school of #HusayniTihrani #ShiiSufism 1/ 
mhva.ir/about/ his own bio on his site makes major claims for him as a heir to the school of #HusayniTihrani which convinced him to go to the #hawza in #Mashhad 2/
Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tihrani (1926-1995) is one of the more interesting and prolific writers on #ShiiSufism especially his biography of the Karbala based ‘mystic’ Sayyid Hashim Haddad (1900-1984) and on his own teacher ‘Allama Tabatabai (1899-1981) 3/
The biography of Haddad entitled Ruh-e mujarrad is a modern classic of #ShiiSufism with a long discussion on the need for a shaykh and a long digression on the #Shiism of #IbnArabi islamic-college.ac.uk/shop/liberated… 4/
#HusayniTihrani claimed a link through Tabatabai and Haddad to an esoteric order of Sufi initiation that reached back to the 18th century and is sometimes called the ‘ethical school of Najaf’ 5/
Others have described this school as a #Shii offshoot of the #Qadiriyya because of their espousal of the #Zikr_e_Yunusi or, as Gramlich suggests, the Hujjat Ali Shah branch of the #Nimatullahi order 6/
Hiding such affiliations makes sense with a #ShiiHawza that has been since the later #Safavid period hostile to #Sufi orders 7/
#HusayniTihrani is one of the various legacies of that order - and his own legacy is disputed by his two sons Sayyid Muhammad Sadiq (b. 1954) and Sayyid Muhammad Muhsin (b. 1956) 8/
Sayyid Sadiq has a prominent website erfanvahekmat.comدانشنامه/آیة_الله_حاج_سید_محمد_صادق_حسینی_طهرانی_مدظله using the standard euphemism for #Sufism #Irfan and they both wear clerical grab 9/
Vakili claims to write extensively in defence of Sufism #MullaSadra and philosophy against the #Maktab_e_tafkik and has a long disputation with #MahdiNasiri mhva.ir/1398/10/28/مناظره-مکتوب-حجت-الاسلام-و-المسلمین-وک
Vakili has also written a biography of Shahid I (Ibn Makki al-Jizzini 1334-1385) describing him as a mystic, another work on #Tusi and the debate on monism, as well as aspects of #MullaSadra and defending Sufism against fake hadith in condemnation 12/
Vakili clearly represents this phenomenon of the popularity and charisma associated with mystical teaching - but unlike many of these who align themselves with the official political theology of the Iranian state he also shows a sympathy for #refomists such as #Soroush 13/
This may be a case of hedging his bets or differentiating his product from #HusayniTihrani 14/
