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Inayat
Inayat ( bn, এনায়েত, ur, عنایت) is a unisex first name in Middle East and South Asia. It may refer to: ;''People'' * Enayat Khan, sitar and surbahar player. * Fazal Inayat-Khan, grandson of Inayat Khan. * Hidayat Inayat Khan, son of Inayat Khan. * Inayat Hussain Khan, Indian classical vocalist. * Inayat Khan, Universal Sufism and founder of the Sufi Order International. * Inayat Ollah Khan Niazi, Pakistan Army officer. * Noor Inayat Khan, daughter of Inayat Khan. * Vilayat Inayat Khan, son of Inayat Khan. * Zia Inayat Khan, grandson of Inayat Khan. * Inayat Bunglawala is media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain. * Shah Inayat Qadiri, Sufi saint of Qadiriyyah Silsilah ;''Places'' * Inayatabad See also * Inayatullah (other) * Inayat Khan (other) Inayat Khan ( ur, عنایت خان) may refer to: * Enayat Khan (1895–1938), sitar and surbahar player * Inayat Hussain Khan (1849–1919), Indian classical vocalist * Inayat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sufi Order International
The Inayati Order (Inayatiyya), is an international organization dedicated to spreading the Sufi teachings of Inayat Khan, a musician and mystic who first introduced Sufism to the modern Western world in 1910. The Inayati Order operates internationally through a network of centers, and offers a number of programs and activities. It is led by Zia Inayat Khan, grandson of Inayat Khan. Objectives of the Order The Inayati Order commits itself to the purposes identified by Inayat Khan in at the first establishment of his Sufi organization: # To realize and spread the knowledge of unity, the religion of love and wisdom, so that the bias of faiths and beliefs may of itself fall away, the human heart may overflow with love, and all hatred caused by distinctions and differences may be rooted out. # To discover the light and power latent in the human being, the secret of all religion, the power of mysticism, and the essence of philosophy, without interfering with customs or beliefs. # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inayat Khan
Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan ( ur, ) (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. 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. Early life Inayat Khan was born in Baroda to a noble Mughal family. His paternal ancestors, comprising yüzkhans (Mughal lords) and bakshys (shamans) , were Turkmen from the Chagatai Khanate who settled in Sialkot, Punjab during the reign of Amir Timur. Inayat Khan's maternal grandfather, Sangit Ratna Maulabakhsh Sholay Khan, was a Hindustani classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor Inayat Khan
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan, GC (1 January 1914 – 13 September 1944), also known as Nora Inayat-Khan and Nora Baker, was a British resistance agent in France in World War II who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The purpose of SOE was to conduct espionage, sabotage, and reconnaissance in countries occupied by the Axis powers, especially those occupied by Nazi Germany. SOE agents allied themselves with resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from the United Kingdom. As an SOE agent under the codename Madeleine she became the first female wireless operator to be sent from the UK into occupied France to aid the French Resistance during World War II. Inayat Khan was betrayed and captured, and executed at Dachau concentration camp. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her service in the SOE, the highest civilian decoration for gallantry in the United Kingdom. Early life Noor Inayat Khan was born on 1 January 1914, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hidayat Inayat Khan
Hidayat Inayat Khan ( ur, ; 6 August 1917 – 12 September 2016) was a British-French classical composer, conductor and Representative-General of the Inayati Order. Biography Hidayat was born in London to Sufi Master Inayat Khan and Pirani Ameena Begum; brother of Noor Inayat Khan, Vilayat Inayat Khan and Khair-un-Nisa (Claire) Inayat Khan ; and father of Fazal Inayat-Khan, who led the Inayati Order from 1968-82. His western musical education began in Paris in 1932 at the Ecole Normale de Musique, in the violin class of Bernard Sinsheimer; the composition class of Nadia Boulanger; and the orchestra class of Diran Alexanian. Later, he attended chamber music courses given by the Lener Quartet in Budapest. In 1942, Hidayat Inayat-Khan became Professor of music at the Lycée Musical de Dieulefit, France, and later, in the Netherlands, joined the orchestra of Haarlem as violinist. He followed the courses of orchestra conducting by Toon Verhey. In 1952, Hidayat Inayat-Khan conduct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zia Inayat Khan
Zia Inayat-Khan (born 1971) is a scholar and teacher of Sufism in the lineage of his grandfather, Inayat Khan. He is president of the Inayati Order and founder of Suluk Academy, a school of contemplative study with branches in the United States and Europe. Biography Zia Inayat-Khan was born in Novato, California, in 1971, and is the first son of Sufi teachers Vilayat Inayat Khan Vilayat Inayat Khan (19 June 1916 17 June 2004) was a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Sufi order of Sufism. His teaching derived from the tradition of his father, Inayat Khan, founder of The Sufi Order ... and Murshida Taj Inayat. Vilayat made it clear to Zia at an early age that he wished him to take the mantle of his Sufi lineage as passed down from Inayat Khan, and instructed him in meditation and spiritual retreat. Zia was confirmed as spiritual successor to Vilayat in 2000, and has served as head of the Inayati Order, guiding Inayati communities in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Universal Sufism
Western Sufism, sometimes identified with Universal Sufism, Neo-Sufism, and Global Sufism, consists of a spectrum of Western European and North American manifestations and adaptations of Sufism, the mystical dimension of Islam. Sufism flourished in Spain from the tenth to fifteenth centuries and spread throughout the Balkans during the Ottoman period. Enslaved Africans maintained Sufi traditions in the Americas. It was not until the twentieth century, however, that Sufi organizations were established in Western Europe and North America. Inayat Khan promulgated Sufism in the United States and Europe from 1910 to 1926. In 1911 Ivan Aguéli established a Sufi society in Paris. Inayat Khan's legacy has sometimes been associated with the neologism "Universal Sufism", though he never used the phrase. Inayat Khan opened his London-based Sufi Order to people of all faiths and simultaneously founded the Anjuman-i Islam (Islamic Society) for "the furtherance of the study of Islam and uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilayat Inayat Khan
Vilayat Inayat Khan (19 June 1916 17 June 2004) was a teacher of meditation and of the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Sufi order of Sufism. His teaching derived from the tradition of his father, Inayat Khan, founder of The Sufi Order in the West (now named the Ināyati Order), in a form tailored to the needs of Western seekers. One of his sisters was Noor Inayat Khan GC MBE. He taught in the tradition of Universal Sufism. His parents met at the New York City ashram of American yogi, Pierre Bernard, half-brother of his mother Pirani Ameena Begum. In 1975 he founded the Abode of the Message, which serves as the central residential community of the Sufi Order International, a conference and retreat center, and a center of esoteric study.Sutton, Robert P. (2005)Modern American Communes: A Dictionary Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. pp. 3-4; . Death Vilayat Inayat Khan died on 17 June 2004, two days before his 88th birthday. His son is Zia Inayat Khan Zia Inayat-Khan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inayat Khan (other)
Inayat Khan ( ur, عنایت خان) may refer to: * Enayat Khan (1895–1938), sitar and surbahar player * Inayat Hussain Khan (1849–1919), Indian classical vocalist * Inayat Khan (cricketer), Pakistani cricketer * Inayat Khan (historian), Mughal historian, author of ''Shah Jahan-náma'' * Inayat Ollah Khan Niazi, Pakistan Army officer Indian Sufi dynasty * Inayat Khan (1882–1927), Universal Sufism and founder of the Sufi Order International * Noor Inayat Khan (1914–1944), daughter of Inayat Khan * Hidayat Inayat Khan (1917–2016), son of Inayat Khan * Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916–2004), son of Inayat Khan * Zia Inayat Khan (born 1971), grandson of Inayat Khan * Fazal Inayat-Khan (1942–1990), grandson of Inayat Khan See also * Inayatullah (other) * Inayat Inayat ( bn, এনায়েত, ur, عنایت) is a unisex first name in Middle East and South Asia. It may refer to: ;''People'' * Enayat Khan, sitar and surbahar player. * Fazal Inayat-Khan, gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inayatullah (other)
Inayatullah, also spelled Enayat Ollah etc. ( ur, عنایت اللہ ) is a male Muslim given name and surname composed of the elements ''Inayat'', meaning ''care'' and ''Allah'', meaning ''of God''. It may refer to: __NOTOC__ Males * Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh (1608–1671), Indian scholar, writer and historian * Shah Inayatullah (ca. 1613–ca. 1701), Sindhi revolutionary poet *Qazi Syed Inayatullah (died ca. 1713), scholar of Fiqh from Haryana, India *Inayatullah Khan (1888 –1946), king of Afghanistan *Inayatullah Khan, also known as Allama Mashriqi (1888-1963), Pakistani mathematician, political theorist and Islamic scholar *Sardar Inayatullah Khan Gandapur (1919–2005), Pakistani politician *Enayatollah Reza (1920-2010, Iranian historian and philosopher *Inayat Ollah Khan Niazi (born 1940), Pakistani military officer * Sohail Inayatullah (born 1958), Pakistani-Australian futurologist *Choudhry Inayatullah Pakistani journalist, founder editor of ''Daily Mashriq'' *Enayatulla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazal Inayat-Khan
Fazal Inayat-Khan ( ur, فضل عنایت خان ) (July 20, 1942 – September 26, 1990), also known as Frank Kevlin, was a psychotherapist and poet who led the Inayati Order from 1968 to 1982. He was the author of ''Old Thinking, New Thinking: The Sufi prism'' (1979) and, published in Dutch, ''Modern soefisme: over creatieve verandering en spirituele groei'' (Modern Sufism: about creative change and spiritual growth) (1992). Life and career Born in Montélimar, Vichy France to a Dutch mother and the composer, Hidayat Inayat Khan, Khan was brought up speaking Hindi, Dutch, English and French. His grandfather was Inayat Khan. His aunt was Noor Inayat Khan. Fazal Inayat-Khan is buried at the Oud Eik en Duinen Oud Eik en Duinen is a cemetery in The Hague, the Netherlands, formerly called Eik en Duinen and also nicknamed "the Dutch Père-Lachaise". The cemetery is built around a chapel constructed around 1247 by William II of Holland in honor of his fa ... cemetery in The Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah Inayat Qadiri
Baba Shah Inayat Qadiri Shatari ( pa, شاه عنایت قادري , also called ''Enayat Shah'' (1643–1728) was a Sufi scholar and saint of the Qadiri-Shatari ''silsila'' (lineage). Shah Inayat Qadiri is famous as the spiritual guide of the universal Punjabi poets Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah. Name '' Baba'' is an honorific term used as a sign of respect to Sufi saints. It is a term similar to "father" or "wise old man". ''Shah'' is another honorific referring to a king. ''Inayat'' is an Islamic male first name. ''Qadiri'' is an Islamic surname. ''Shatari'' or ''Shattari'' refers to a ''tariqah'', a Sufi mystical order. Background Shah Inayat was born in an Arain house, his ancestry is with the Arabic tribes of Damascus who arrived in the Indian subcontinent with Muhammad Bin Qasim.” Shah Inayat was a Sufi scholar of the Qadiri-Shatari ''silsila'' (lineage). All Qadiri Sufi orders trace their lineage to Abdul-Qadir Gilani (1077 CE - 1166 CE). Shah Inayat was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inayat Bunglawala
Inayat Bunglawala was media secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain until 2010. He joined The Young Muslims UK in 1987. He is also a co-presenter of the weekly 'Politics and Media Show' on the Islam Channel (SKY 813). In October 2009 he registered the domain name Muslims4UK.org.uk, thus launching a group which is described as "set up to celebrate the UK's democratic traditions and promote active Muslim engagement in our society". Work Some of Bunglawala's views as media secretary for the Muslim Council of Britain were quoted in the press. He has discussed matters of religion as well as politics. Tackling extremism together Despite accusations of anti-Semitism, Bunglawala was selected as one of seven "conveners" of a Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling extremism among young Muslims. He rejects these accusations as a "traditional Zionist tactic" aimed to "silence critics of Israel", as he is an outspoken defender of what he considers to be Israeli oppress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
