Irina Tweedie

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Irina Tweedie (* 1907 in the Russian Empire ; † August 1999 in London ) was a Russian - English Sufi teacher .

Life

After studying in Vienna and Paris and after the end of the Second World War , the native Russian married a British naval officer who died in 1954.

Because of her interest in theosophy , she undertook a trip to India in 1959 and met “Bhai Sahib”, a Hindu Sufi master from the Naqschbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya-Sufi lineage (branch line of the Naqschbandi - Tariqa ). She becomes his student. He asked her to write a diary of her spiritual training, which she published in English in 1986.

After the Sheikh's death in 1966, Irina Tweedie went to the Himalayas for eight months and moved to London in 1967. There she worked until her death in 1999 as a teacher and companion for many western seekers (for example by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee or Annette Kaiser ). In England, Germany and Switzerland she holds numerous lectures and seminars and instructs her students in the quiet meditation of the heart and the spiritual dream work.

Literary works

  • Like a phoenix from the ashes . My adventure of self-discovery on the way of the Sufis. Munich 1980, 320 pages, ISBN 3499601486
  • The way through the fire . Diary of a spiritual training by a Sufi master. Munich 1988, 1036 pages, ISBN 3-7787-7144-2 (linen edition), ISBN 3-4537-0011-2 (paperback edition) - (This is the later published and unabridged version of "Wie Phönix aus der Asche" )

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personal data
SURNAME Tweedie, Irina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-English Sufi teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 1999
Place of death London