A long awaited episode, in which we finally talk about the important and controverisal 20th century sufi Inayat Khan and the Sufi Movement that he started in the West.
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Music by:
Filip Holm
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Pawan Krishna
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Sources/Recomended Reading:
Gandhi, Supriya (2020). "The Emperor who never was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India". Belknap Press.
Inayat Khan, Pir Zia (ed.) (2001). "A Pearl in Wine: Essays on the Life, Music & Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan". Omega Publications.
Inayat Khan Zia (2006). "A Hybrid Sufi Order At the Crossroads of Modernity: The Sufi Order and Sufi Movement of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan". Doctoral Thesis. Duke University.
Khan, Inayat (1996). "The Mysticism of Sound & Music". Shambala.
Khan, Inayat (2003). "The Sufi Message: Spiritual Liberty" (Vol. 5). Motilal Banarsidass Publications.
Miner, Allyn (translated by) (2016). "The Minqar-i Musiqar: Hazrat Inayat Khan's classic 1912 work on Indian musical theory & practice". Suluk Press.
Nair, Shankar (2020). "Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia". University of California Press.
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Early Life, Family & Music
6:55 Entering the Sufi Path
10:10 Last years in India
11:56 Sufism & The Chishti Order
16:57 Traveling to the West & Early Murids
21:37 The Sufi Order/Movement
24:50 Love, Harmony, Beauty
26:28 The School of Love
30:23 Divine Music
33:29 Ibn 'Arabi & The Akbari School
36:36 Universal Sufism?
40:19 Practices, Principles & Universal Worship
46:48 Women & Noor Inayat Khan
50:15 Final years
53:07 Legacy & Later Sufi Movement/Inayti Order
57:30 Conclusions
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