Vilayat Inayat Khan

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Vilayat Inayat Khan (born June 19, 1916 in London , † June 17, 2004 in Suresnes ), who was named in his capacity as head of the International Sufi Order Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan , was the second of four children of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Ora Ray Baker (1892-1927). From 1957 until his death he was the spiritual head of the order founded by his father. For his services to interreligious understanding he was posthumously awarded the Juliet Hollister Award on July 10, 2004, which the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela have also received.

Life

Youth and family

The symbol of the International Sufi Order

Vilayat Inayat Khan's father Hazrat Inayat Khan , who came from a family that from gemäßigt- Islam - Orthodox Chishtiyya was marked -Orden, emigrated in 1910 by India in the United States and founded in 1917 in London the International Sufi Order , which as a Spiritual orders tailored to Western needs apply. His father was known in India as a musician and at the age of 20 he was a full professor at the Baroda Music Academy. He had published various books on music theory and so music traditionally played an important role in the family as a religious ritual and was the gateway for spiritual experience and knowledge. Among the first murīden of Hazrat Inayat Khan in America was his future wife and Vilayat's mother, Ora Ray Baker (1892-1949), whom he married in London in 1912. Vilayat had three siblings: the younger brother Hidayat , the two years older Noor-un-Nisa and Khair-un-Nisa (born 1919). Until the death of the father, the family lived in London, Paris , Moscow and Geneva . Vilayat Inayat Khan grew up in Suresnes near Paris, where his father named him his successor shortly before his death at the age of ten. Hazrat Inayat Khan died of flu in 1927 while traveling to India .

Training and wartime

Vilayat Inayat Khan received his education at Oxford and graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris with a degree in psychology . He also studied composition with Nadia Boulanger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and played the cello .

In 1940 he left Paris with his family and returned to England, where he and his sister Noor were recruited by the Secret Intelligence Service . He served on a minesweeper , Noor was trained as a radio operator. Noor, who was known by the code name Madeleine , was exposed as an English agent and member of the Resistance during her deployment in France and was killed in 1944 in the Dachau concentration camp . Vilayat Inayat Khan's ship was torpedoed when the Allies landed in Normandy .

After the war, Inayat Khan resumed his spiritual studies with various teachers in India and the Middle East and combined Eastern and Western traditions when he took over the leadership of the International Sufi Order as intended by his father in 1957 .

Vilayat Inayat Khan as a teacher

The 2005 summer camp of the International Sufi Order in Campra near Olivone

After Hazrat Inayat Khan's death, the order he founded was led by older family members. There was a separation and today there is next to the International Sufi Order , headed by Vilayat Inayat Khan from 1957, also the International Sufi Movement , which exist side by side and have similar structures. Vilayat Inayat Khan tried in his order to combine the experiences of the mystics of all religions and traditions with the knowledge of modern science. His love for music, such as B. that of Johann Sebastian Bach , also flowed into his teachings. He has regularly led seminars , camps and retreats around the world. In 1975 he founded the Abode of the Message spiritual community and the Omega Institute study center in New York State . He organized interfaith events and participated in numerous conferences on the subjects of spirituality, science and psychology. In 1974 he published Toward the One, an introduction to spiritual traditions and their practices. This was followed by a study of his father's life and teachings and books on the various aspects of meditation and self-actualization. His last publication was in 2003, In Search of the Hidden Treasure , which presents the Sufi teachings in the form of an imaginary congress of Sufis spanning several centuries.

For his life's work he posthumously received the Juliet Hollister Award , which is awarded for services to interreligious understanding. B. Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama received.

Vilayat Inayat Khan married Mary Walls in the early 1950s. In the late 50s he had a daughter, Maria, from a side relationship. From a later relationship with the American Taj Inayat Glantz he had two sons, Zia and Merlin. In February 2000 he declared Zia Inayat Khan to be his successor and consecrated him as a pir . In 2004, after the death of Vilayat Inayat Khan, he took over the leadership of the International Sufi Order (renamed in 2016 to: Inayati Order ). Vilayat Inayat Khan was buried in his father's tomb complex in Delhi .

bibliography

Cello Concerto in Olivone, 1993
  • Toward the one. Harper and Row, 1974.
  • The Message in Our Time. Harper and Row, 1978.
  • The Call of the Dervish. Sufi Order Publications, 1981.
  • Sufi Masters. Sufi Order Publications, 1982.
  • Introducing Spirituality Into Counseling and Therapy. Omega Press, 1982.
  • That Which Transpires Behind That Which Appears. Omega Publications, 1994.
  • Awakening: A Sufi Experience. Tarcher Putnam, 1999.
  • In Search of the Hidden Treasure. Tarcher, 2003.
    • In search of the hidden treasure. A Sufi conference. Translated from the American by Kaivan F. Plesken. edition nada, Bad Bevensen 2011, ISBN 978-3-933467-09-6 .
  • Hazrat Inayat Khan. A biographical sketch. Aeoliah Musikverlag, ISBN 978-3-9808418-0-1 .
  • What shows through what appears. 3. Edition. edition nada, Bad Bevensen, 2006, ISBN 3-933467-01-2 .
  • with Aeoliah Christa Muckenheim: Music and Meditation. Verlag Heilbronn 2014, ISBN 978-3-936246-15-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Temple of Understanding (accessed May 12, 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Inayat Khan, Vilayat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the International Sufi Order
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 2004
Place of death Suresnes