of these, the Mehr Lodge and also guided another, the Safa Lodge, which had been established in 1962 ". According to Alaeddin Rouhani, Masonic lodges connected to Germany were set up in Iran after WWII because they were not tainted with a history of colonialism and imperialism like the British lodges. According to Mahmoud Tolooie "although Entezam was a founder member of these Iranian lodges, he gave up on them after the death of Seyed Hassan Taghizadeh in 1970 and did not attend their meetings anymore". Sufism Upon the death of his father he became the leader of the Safi Ali Shahi order of dervishes in Iran. A New Perspective on Mysticism and Sufism: Abdollah Entezam, Introduced and translated by Matthijs van der Bos. In 1977 Entezam wrote a series of articles entitled ‘A New Perspective on Mysticism and Sufism – Nazari tazeh be erfan va tassavof-. He used the pseudonym ‘I do not know’ (la adri) and the articles reported the question and answer sessions of a Sufi Master. The essays were republished after the revolution by Vahid Publishers, under the pseudonym of Abdollah Azadeh in 1984. End of life At the start of the Iranian revolution, in 1978 the 86-year-old Entezam was offered the role of Prime minister by the Shah, but was said to have turned it down on health grounds. Some have said he was imprisoned by the new Islamist regime and released before his death in spring 1983. However, in the Persian Wikipedia page on him, it is stated that unlike his brother Nasrollah, he was not imprisoned or tortured and that even Ayatollah Khomeini did not want him to be arrested. His obituary appeared in the Times by Sir Denis Wright on 23 April 1983, in which he said: "Untainted by corruption, he was, in the words of a British ambassador who knew him well, a "man of charm, modesty, and considerable ability, ... spoke excellent English, French, and German, ... shunned high society and lacked ambition but had a great capacity for friendship and was respected by all who knew him. The Shah would never have lost his throne had he listened to and made full use of men such as Abdollah References External links The Persian sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the riddle of the Iranian ... By Abbas Milani iranian.com, contains an ITN film by Tim Brinton and interview with Entezam