Hazrat inayat khan biography of mahatma

Indian singer, poet and Sufi guide (–)

For other people named Inayat Khan, see Inayat Khan (disambiguation).

Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان رحمت خان; 5 July – 5 February ) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West.^[2] 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.

) of Hyderabad, he established an order of Sufism (the Sufi Order) in London in By the time of his death in , centers had been established throughout Europe and North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had been published.^[3]

Early life

Inayat Khan was born in Baroda to a noble Mughal family.

His paternal ancestors, comprising yüzkhans (Central Asian lords) and bakshys (shamans), were Turkmen from the Chagatai Khanate who settled in Si