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The works of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan are one of the great spiritual treasures of the world. At once deeply rooted in the Sufi tradition and strikingly original in insight and expression, Hazrats teachings remain as potent and meaningful today as they were when originally communicated a century ago. These teachings contain a message for every human mind and heart, and indeed for humankind collectively. The aim of this series is to provide the full set of Hazrats best-known teachings in a form that balances fidelity to his original words with sensitivity to the contemporary evolution of the English language.

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Few writers have been as important to the understanding of Islamic mysticism as Hazrat Inayat Khan...These writings are an eloquent introduction to a spiritual path that encourages seekers to discover their inner spirituality amidst the business of everyday life. Publishers Weekly Inayat Khan's insistence on the unity of mysticism and the oneness of God, along with his openness to all spiritual paths, is an important corrective to sectarianism and Western misperception of Islam as sectarian. Booklist review One comes to appreciate the prophetic modernism of Hazrat Khan's thinking. He was remarkable ahead of his age in recognizing the widening role of women in the spiritual awakening of the new age. He appreciated the openness of American to Eastern wisdom, but was cautious of the tendencies of the American public to latch onto the newest fads from the East with superficial commitment. His view on art and education for the new age are both humane and visionary. - Yoga Journal Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan was one of the most prolific and well-known of the Sufi shaykhs of the modern age, a spiritual guide in the lineage of the Chistiyya order. Professor Jane I. Smith, Harvard Divinity School

"""Few writers have been as important to the understanding of Islamic mysticism as Hazrat Inayat Khan...These writings are an eloquent introduction to a spiritual path that encourages seekers to discover their inner spirituality amidst the business of everyday life."" Publishers Weekly ""Inayat Khan's insistence on the unity of mysticism and the oneness of God, along with his openness to all spiritual paths, is an important corrective to sectarianism and Western misperception of Islam as sectarian."" Booklist review ""One comes to appreciate the prophetic modernism of Hazrat Khan's thinking. He was remarkable ahead of his age in recognizing the widening role of women in the spiritual awakening of the new age. He appreciated the openness of American to Eastern wisdom, but was cautious of the tendencies of the American public to latch onto the newest fads from the East with superficial commitment. His view on art and education for the new age are both humane and visionary."" - Yoga Journal ""Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan was one of the most prolific and well-known of the Sufi shaykhs of the modern age, a spiritual guide in the lineage of the Chistiyya order."" Professor Jane I. Smith, Harvard Divinity School"

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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.

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