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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
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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
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Mark Sedgwick, Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) and Western Sufism: From the Abbasids to the New Age (New York: Oxford University Press,
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Another organization, known as Sufi Contact, was founded by the Dutch Sufi proponent Gauri Voute. Its structure is strictly egalitarian; hence, there is no central leader. Samuel Lewis founded a California-based organization named
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Rabia Martin (d. 1947), who served as the North American representative of the Sufi Movement in Inayat Khan's lifetime, broke away when Maheboob Khan assumed leadership. Another disciple of Inayat Khan,
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and may identify with a variety of Sufi traditions, some of which have evolved to be pluralistic and not exclusively Islamic. In addition to Western Sufism, traditional Sufism also exists in the West (
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Creek, Sufism Reoriented Type Non-profit religious corporation Founded 1952 Location Walnut; sufismreoriented.org, California Key people Carol Weyland Conner Website.
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Mohammed Ali Khan (d. 1958) designated Maheboob Khan's son Mahmood Khan (1927-) as his successor, but the latter stood down in deference to his uncle
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and unity between the Muslims and the non-Muslims in the world by discovering the universal spirit of Islam." Aguéli's legacy is associated with the
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is one notable traditional Sufi figure in the West), although it is significantly less prevalent among Muslims in the West than Sufism in the
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deferred to Mohammed Ali Khan, but subsequently assumed his father's mantle in 1956. His lineage, traced via his elder sister
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Fazal left the Sufi Movement in 1988 and founded a new organization named The Sufi Way. Its current leader is Elias Amidon.
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Shaikh al-Mashaik Mahmood Khan (2001). "Hazrat Inayat Khan: A Biographical Perspective". In Pirzade Zia Inayat Khan (ed.).
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flourished in Spain from the tenth to fifteenth centuries and spread throughout the Balkans during the
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H.J. Witteveen coined the term "Universal Sufism" in his book of the same title (London: Vega, 2002).
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spiritual traditions, thus exemplifying a broader Indian cultural phenomenon popularly known as
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Sufi Mysticism into the West: Life and Leadership of Hazrat Inayat Khan's Brothers 1927-1967
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The scion of a family of Indian mystics and musicians of Central Asian origin,
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was elected to lead his movement. On the latter's death in 1948, their cousin
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lineages of Sufism. The Chishti order had for centuries engaged with
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The Heritage of Sufism: The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism
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New religious movement with its origins in traditional Sufism
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Sufism (disambiguation)
Western Sufism

Inayat Khan
Pirani Ameena Begum
Meher Baba
Maheboob Khan
Mohammed Ali Khan
Musharaff Khan
Samuel L. Lewis
Fazal Inayat-Khan
Vilayat Inayat Khan
Hidayat Inayat Khan
Zia Inayat Khan
Shabda Kahn
Johan Witteveen
Sufi Order Ināyati
Sufi Ruhaniat International
Dances of Universal Peace
The Abode of the Message
Universel Murad Hassil
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Inayat Khan
Hisham Kabbani
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