Call of the Dervish - Softcover

Khan, Vilayat Inayat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0930872444 ISBN 13: 9780930872441

Verlag: Omega Publications,U.S., 1992

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The Call of the Dervish is a bold exploration of the meaning and purpose of spirituality in the contemporary world. The dervish is in the world but not of the world, and the call is a the challenge to "be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect."

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Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916 -2004) was the eldest son of Sufi Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ora Ray Baker. As his father’s successor, Pir Vilayat served as head of the Sufi Order International for fifty years. Born in London, England, Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was educated at the Sorbonne, Oxford, and L’école Normale de Musique de Paris. During World War II he served in the British Royal Navy on a minesweeper and participated in the invasion at Normandy. His sister, Noor-un-nisa Inayat Khan served in the French Resistance as a radio operator and was executed at Dachau. After the war, Pir Vilayat pursued his spiritual training by studying with masters of many different religious traditions throughout India and the Middle East. While honoring the initiatic tradition of his Sufi predecessors, Pir Vilayat continually adapted traditional Eastern spiritual practices in keeping with the evolution of Western consciousness, psychology, and science. He initiated and participated

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• Verlag: Omega Publications,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0930872444
• ISBN 13: 9780930872441
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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