Inayat Khan

Inayat Khan
عنایت خان رحمت خان
Title
  • Pir-o-Murshid
  • Shaikh al-Mashaikh
  • Tansen Zamanihal
  • Yüzkhan
  • Bakhshi
  • Shah
  • Mir-Khayl[1]
Personal
Born
Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan

(1882-07-05)July 5, 1882
DiedFebruary 5, 1927(1927-02-05) (aged 44)
New Delhi, British India
ReligionIslam
SpousePirani Ameena Begum
ChildrenVilayat; Hidayat; Noor; Khair-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
CreedSufism
ProfessionMusician, Pir, Musicologist
Muslim leader
SuccessorVilayat
ProfessionMusician, Pir, Musicologist
Universel Murad Hassil, Netherlands
Sant and Pir
Venerated inInayatiyya; Western Sufism
Major shrineDargah in Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi
InfluencesSayyid Abu Hashim Madani
InfluencedUniversal Sufism
Tradition or genre
Chishti, and other major Sufi tariqa

Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان رحمت خان; 5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West.[2] At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and authorization at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani (d. 1907) of Hyderabad, he established an order of Sufism (the Sufi Order) in London in 1914. By the time of his death in 1927, centers had been established throughout Europe and North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had been published.[3]

  1. ^ Pirzade Zia Inayat Khan, ed. (2001). A Pearl in Wine: Essays on the life, music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. New Lebanon, NY; USA: Omega Publications. ISBN 093087269X.
  2. ^ Mehta, R.C (2001). "Music in the Life of Hazrat Inayat Khan". In Pirzade Zia Inayat Khan (ed.). A Pearl in Wine: Essays on the life, music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. New Lebanon, NY; USA: Omega Publications. pp. 161–176. ISBN 093087269X.
  3. ^ Graham, Donald A. (2001). "The Career of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan in the West". In Pirzade Zia Inayat Khan (ed.). A Pearl in Wine. New Lebanon, NY; USA: Omega. pp. 127–160. ISBN 093087269X.