Message in Our Time
The Life & Teaching of the Sufi Master Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan.
3rd Edition
Published on 23. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
442 pages
978-0-930872-04-5 (ISBN)
Description
Spiritual biography of Inayat Khan who came to the West with a message of love, harmony and beauty that was both quintessence of Sufi teachings and a revolutionary approach to the harmonising of Western and Eastern spirituality.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
665 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-930872-04-5 (9780930872045)
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Person
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916 -2004) was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ora Ray Baker. As his father's successor, Pir Vilayat served as head of the Sufi Order International for fifty years. Born in London, England, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was educated at the Sorbonne, Oxford, and L'ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. During World War II he served in the British Royal Navy on a minesweeper and participated in the invasion at Normandy. His sister, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan served in the French Resistance as a radio operator and was executed at Dachau. After the war, Pir Vilayat pursued his spiritual training by studying with masters of many different religious traditions throughout India and the Middle East. While honoring the initiatic tradition of his Sufi predecessors, Pir Vilayat continually adapted traditional Eastern spiritual practices in keeping with the evolution of Western consciousness, psychology, and science. He initiated and participated