Zia Inayat Khan

Who is Zia Inayat Khan?

Zia Inayat Khan is the Pir or spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International, a universalist Sufi order, and the founder of the Suluk Academy and Seven Pillars House of Wisdom.

Khan is the son and successor to Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan as leader of the Sufi Order International, and grandson of Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, the founder of the order. Like his predecessors, he carries forward the message of universal Sufism, with a particular sensitivity to both contemporary ecological concerns as well as the esoteric heritage of classical Indian Sufism.

In addition to the interfaith mystical training he has received from his father, Khan has studied Buddhism under the auspices of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Sufism in the classical Indian tradition of the Chisti Order. Khan is editor of A Pearl in Wine: Essays on the Life, Music, and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan. He holds a doctorate in Religion from Duke University.