Hasan Lütfî Şuşud

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Hasan Lütfi Şuşud (born 1902 in Izmir , Anatolia ; died 1988 ), also in the spelling Hasan Lutfi Schuschud , was a Turkish Sufi master who emerged from the Islamic mysticism through his work on the Khojas dynasty, the Sufi master of Central Asia .

Live and act

Hasan Lütfi Şuşud was born in Izmir in 1902. He worked as a government employee throughout his life. He was a French teacher in Balıkesir and later an employee in the Ministry of Finance. He became known in the West as the spiritual leader of Gurdjieff's student John G. Bennett (1897–1974). Based on information from the Istanbul Sufi master , Bennett wrote his last book, The Masters of Wisdom (1977), which was published posthumously. Şuşud's book İslâm tasavvufunda hâcegân hânedânı was published in English under the title Masters of Wisdom of Central Asia . He died in 1988. The orientalist Annemarie Schimmel describes her encounter with him in her autobiography.

Works (selection)


literature

Online Copy of a short version of Shushud's Masters of Wisdom , translated by JG Bennett and published in Systematics
Crossing the great water. Chalice Publishing House. 2011, ISBN 978-3-942914-02-4 ( partial online view ) ( Witness - the story of a search , German; autobiography)
A spiritual psychology: the search for reality. ( Online partial view )

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References and footnotes

  1. ↑ John G. Bennett: The Crossing of the Great Waters (2011: 487): “When we first met, he gave me a copy of his book Khwajagan Hanedani, The History of the Masters of Wisdom from Central Asia, coupled with a description of the path to Absolute Liberation - itlak yolu - whose leading exponent he was and is. "
  2. ↑ JG Bennett lists his sources as follows:
    • Resahat'i Ayn'el Hayat , compiled by Mevlana Ali Bin Huseyin Safi (AH 993).
    • Nefahat'el Uns min Hazerat'el Kuds (AH 1289), from Abdurrahman Cami (AH 881).
    • Risale'i Bahaiyye , from Rif'at Bey.
    • Semerat'el Fuad , from Sari Abdullah.
    • Makamat'i Muhammed Bahaeddin Naqshibend , from Salahaddin Ibn'i Mubarek'el Buhari, Istanbul (AH 1328).
    ( Online Copy of a short version of Shushud's Masters of Wisdom , translated by JG Bennett and published in Systematics )
  3. ↑ Annemarie Schimmel: Orient and Occident. My west-east life. Autobiography. Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49564-8 , p. 99 f.
personal data
SURNAME Şuşud, Hasan Lütfî
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Şuşud, Hasan Lütfi; Shushud, Hasan Lutfi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish Sufi master and Naqshbandi historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Izmir , Anatolia
DATE OF DEATH 1988