Education from Before Birth to Maturity
Hazrat Inayat Khan was born in Baroda, India, in 1882, into a family of classical musicians. Initiated in the four major streams of Indian Sufism, he was sent to the West by his teacher, Abu Hashim Madani Chishti, "to harmonize East and West" with his music. Inayat Khan left India in 1910 and for sixteen years he lived and taught in Europe and America, bringing a message of love, harmony and beauty that was both the quintessence of Sufi teaching and a revolutionary new approach to the harmonizing of western and eastern spirituality. He established a school of spiritual training based upon traditional Sufi teachings infused with the vision of the unity of religious ideals and the awakening of humanity to the divinity within. Inayat Khan died in India in 1927, leaving a significant body of recorded discourse and instruction on all things pertaining to spiritual ideals in the midst of life in the world.
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Book details
- Author
- Inayat Khan
- Imprint
- Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Education › Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
- Topics
- philosophy of education · Sufism · spiritual development · eastern and western spirituality · child development · education from birth · Sufi teachings
- ISBN-13
- 9780897930635
About the author
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN was an Indian musician, Sufi teacher, poet, philosopher, and writer who founded the Sufi Order in the West in 1914 and later helped establish the International Sufi Movement. His books include The Bowl of Saki, Education from Before Birth to Maturity, and The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the last published in twelve volumes.
Khan was born in Baroda into a family of classical musicians and was initiated into the major streams of Indian Sufism. He traveled to the West in 1910, commissioned by his teacher to harmonize East and West, and lectured and taught throughout Europe and the United States.
Inayat Khan died in India in 1927.