SKU: 9053400079

• 1990
• Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan
• ISBN: 9053400079
• Book (Hardcover)
• Omega Publications
• 6 1/2 x 9 1/2
• 2.6 lbs
• 622 pages

All known talks given by Inayat Khan during the first half of 1922, in their unedited and most authentic version. Many of the lectures from the early part of the year were taken from transcriptions in French, gathered from lectures Inayat Khan gave in Paris in public halls, and at private homes. Also from this timeframe are lectures from Inayat Khan's travels to Belgium and the Netherlands.

The majority of the material in this volume comes from the period of the Summer School, June 16th to August 24th. In between the lectures in July and August, Inayat Khan privately gave twelve short lessons on Indian music to the young daughter of a mureed, and these can be found here as well. A very substantial number of the talks presented in this volume later were incorporated into a series of lessons for initiates into the Sufi Order; these are known as Gathas.

Hazrat Inayat Khan, founder of the Sufi Order International, came to the West as a representative of the highest musical traditions of his native India, and brought with him a message of love, harmony and beauty that was both the quintessence of Sufi teaching and a revolutionary approach to the harmonizing of Western and Eastern spirituality. He dedicated his early life to the mastery of subtle intricacies of classical Indian music, winning the high title of Tansen from the Nizam of Hyderabad, a powerful ruler and renowned patron of the musical arts.

In fulfillment of his quest for a spiritual teacher, Inayat Khan took initiation from Shaykh al-Mashaykh Sayed Muhammed Abu Hashim Madani. While he was an inititator of the four main Sufi lineages in India, Madani's primary connection was with the Chishti Order. At the end of his apprenticeship, Inayat Khan was enjoined by his teacher to travel to the West and harmonize the two cultures.

On September 13 of 1910 Inayat Khan began an odyssey which would encompass three continents, and transform the lives of thousands. He eventually settled in Suresnes, a suburb of Paris. During his sixteen years in the West, he created a school of spiritual training based upon the traditional teachings of the Chishti Sufis, and infused with a revolutionary vision of the unity of religious ideals and the awakening of humanity to the divinity within.

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