The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan Vol. 1 Centennial Edition

The essential introductory text to the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan, newly revised for a contemporary audience. This first volume of the Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Centennial Edition Series, comprises four books on the theme of the inner life and is considered an essential introduction to the teachings of Hazrat Inayat Khan. This material is newly presented in a form that balances fidelity to his original words with sensitivity to the contemporary evolution of the English language. The following works, along with an Introduction by Pir Zia Inayat Khan, are included: The Way of Illumination; The Inner Life; The Soul, Whence and Whither; The Purpose of Life.

Hazrat Inayat Kahn, founder of the Sufi order in the West, was born in India in 1882. A master of classical Indian music by the age of twenty, he relinquished a brilliant career to devote himself to the spiritual path. In 1920, acting upon the guidance of his teacher, he became one of the first teachers of the Sufi tradition in the West. For a decade and a half he travelled throughout Europe and the US giving lectures and guiding an ever-growing group of seekers. In 1926, he returned to India where he died the following year.

Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice with offerings in North America and Europe, as well as online. He is editor of A Pearl in Wine: Essays in the Life, Music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Caravan of Souls: An Introduction to the Sufi Path of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and author of Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; and Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Commentary by Pir Zia Inayat Khan. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France.