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Vilayat Inayat Khan

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Vilayat Inayat Khan was a teacher of meditation and the traditions of the East Indian Chishti Order of Sufism. His teaching derived from the tradition of his father, Hazrat, founder of The Sufi Order in the West, combined with western culture. One of his siblings was Noor Inayat Khan. He taught in the tradition of universal Sufism, which views all religions as rays of light from the same sun. 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