Pir Zia Inayat Khan, eldest son and successor of Pir Vilayat
Inayat Khan, was born in 1971 in Novato, California.
He received his B.A. from the London School of Oriental and
African Studies and his M.A. in Religious Studies from Duke
University, where he is currently completing a doctoral
dissertation on Sufism. In addition to the interfaith mystical
training he has received from his father, Pir Zia has studied
Buddhism under the auspices of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama.
His training in Sufism is in the classical Indian tradition of
the Chishtiyya.
Since February, 2000, Pir Zia has served as the President of the
Sufi Order International, North America, and is currently in
residence at the Abode of the Message, a community in New
Lebanon, New York. Pir Zia has spoken on the heart of Sufism
in North America, Europe and India. He is the editor of A
Pearl in Wine, Essays on the Life, Music and Sufism of Hazrat
Inayat Khan (Omega Publications, 2001). He has also
authored two booklets published by the Sufi Order Secretariat:
Risala and The Chishti Silsila of Pir-o-Murshid
Inayat Khan.
Taken from "Contributors," A Pearl in Wine, p. 470, and
information available on the Sufi Order International web
page (see: Links).
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