Hazrat Inayat Khan was an Indian Sufi mystic who came to the West in 1910. Histeachings The Sufi Message emphasize the divinity of the soul and theexperience of... » 

Hazrat Inayat Khan was an Indian Sufi mystic who came to the West in 1910. Histeachings The Sufi Message emphasize the divinity of the soul and theexperience of unity of being and unity of religious ideals. The teachings showhow Sufism can harmonize eastern and western culture. The process of suchharmonization is fairly complex and raises very fundamental questions abouteastern values in western society of Sufism in the West. The book examines thefortyyear period after the passing away of Hazrat Inayat Khan in 1927 duringwhich his brothers Maheboob Khan 18871948 Mohammed Ali Khan 18811958 andMusharaff Kahn 18951967 followed Hazrat Inayat Khan as leaders of hisorganization the Sufi Movement. It studies how they maintained and spread theteachings and how each one of them influenced the organization and itsadherents in their own way according to their own personality education andmystical realization. At the same time the book offers perspectives onleadership succession and issues pertaining to tensions between eastern andwestern culture and history social discontinuity e.g. the problem ofhierarchy versus democracy and the relationship between mysticism and psychospiritual development. «