![]() Sidi Nooruddeen also designed and built the buildings of Lama. The community at Lama was founded for the awakening of consciousness in a drug-free, vegetarian, and heavily work oriented routine which included daily early morning meditation. Through the community near Taos, New Mexico, known as Lama which he co-founded (along with his wife at the time, Asha, and Jonathan Altman) he established what would become a very active hub for serious seekers of wisdom and enlightenment. Prior to his acceptance of Islam in al-Quds at the hands of Shaykh Muhammad Alī al-Jamal al-Rifiāī in 1969, Sidi Nooruddeen had played an important role in introducing the teachings of many Eastern sages and spiritual masters from various Traditions to Americans who were intensely seeking spiritual fulfillment and guidance in the 1960s. He was granted khilāfah in the Shādhilī Tarīqah in 1975 by the Cairene Shaykh Ibrahim al-Battāwī who was also a professor at Al-Azhar University. Shaykh Abdullah Nooruddeen was a pioneer in spreading Islam in the United States of America and has the distinction of being perhaps the very first American-born sufi Shaykh. The following is a biographical sketch of my dear friend along with some personal observations. It was the beginning of a deep friendship that lasted for some thirty years until his death. ![]() ![]() I first came to know Sidi Nooruddeen in the summer of 1990. Shaykh Abdullah Nooruddeen Durkee passed away in his home on Green Mountain on the 25th of Muharram, which also marks the martyrdom of al-Imam al-Sajjad Zayn al-Ābidīn Alī Ibn al-Husayn ( Alayhis Salam) in the year 95 H. (Obituary written by Dr Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmad)
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