Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Alchemische Weisheit by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (2016, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan is the eldest son of and spiritual successor to Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, who founded the Sufi Order in the West in 1910. He taught in the tradition of Universal Sufism. Current leader of the Sufi Order International. Pir Zia, also known as Sarafil Bawal is the first son of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and Taj Inayat, born in 1971 in Novato, California.He grew up in California, New York, and New Mexico.

Eldest son of Pir Vilayat and Jemila Taj Inayat. “Pir Vilayat was an elegant writer as well as a captivating speaker. Vilayat Inayat Khan was born on June 19, 1916, and died on June 17, 2004. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan’s last book The Ecstasy Beyond Knowing: A Manual of Meditation is a very important summing up of a life and a movement, a vast and unique wedding of mysticism, meditation, and inner science.

Pir Vilayat made it clear to Zia at an early age that he wished him to continue his lineage. “Pir Vilayat’s brilliant understanding and his embodiment of that lovely, hilarious, grieving, courageous, magnificent mystery called Sufism, or the lineage of the Sufi masters, was and is a great gift to Western Civilization”. It is a wondrous and deeply impressive personal compendium of a Sufi Master’s life of study and contemplative experience. The theme for the year is The 10 Sufi Thoughts: a comprehensive guide to living a life of joy and purpose. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. Vilayat Inayat Khan was born in London, England, Pir Vilayat was a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Order of Sufism.

His work has been universally celebrated and has continued to evolve since he became head of the Sufi Order in 1956. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916–2004, left) was Inayat Khan’s successor and during his fifty years as head of the Ināyati Order, became an internationally-recognized spiritual teacher and master of meditation. Classes will explore the art of healing using the Sufi teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat Khan, and the current teachings of Pir Zia Inayat Khan.

found: Wikipedia, June 7, 2013 (Vilayat Inayat Khan; born on June 19, 1916, in London, England; died June 17, 2004; teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Order of Sufism. For a long time he lived with his wife and 2 children in New Lebanon, in the state of New York, in The Abode of the Message which is a community of which the plot of land and houses belonged to … His teaching derived from the tradition of his father (Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan) combined with western culture. Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan, who headed an international order of Sufis, members of a mystical offshoot of Islam, and wrote books about it, died on Thursday at … by Jessica Roemischer: Over the course of his eighty-eight years of life, the great Sufi mystic and teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan wove the timeless essence of Sufism into the unfolding expressions of contemporary culture and consciousness.

The Sufi tradition he represented, with its origins in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Turkey, is the most intellectually open strand of Islam, as well as the most ecstatic, experiential one. -Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Rumi. Free shipping for many products! Pir Vilayat was one of the first Muslims in the modern era to bring a positive vision of Islam to the West, beginning in the late 1960’s.