Pir Zia Inayat-Khan is spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International, a mystical and ecumenical fellowship rooted in the visionary legacy of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is the son and successor of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and founder of Seven Pillars House of Wisdom. 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, and Sufism in the classical Indian tradition of the Chishtiyya.
President of the Suluk Academy for esoteric studies, Pir Zia Inayat-Khan is a recipient of the U Thant Peace Award and is a Lindisfarne Fellow. He holds a doctorate degree in religion from Duke University and is editor of A Pearl in Wine: Essays on the Life, Music, and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan.
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