Inayat Khan – known among his disciples as  Hazrat (“his holiness”) Pir-o-Murshid (“teacher of teachers”) Inayat Khan – was directed in 1908 by his own teacher, Hazrat Shaykh al-Masha’ikh Muhammad Abu Hashim Madani, to bring Sufism to Western Europe and America, and did so in 1910. The seeds he planted over the next 16 years have grown since his passing in 1927 into living spiritual traditions reflecting the cultural fields in which they were planted and watered during his life.

An extensive overview of his life and work may be found here.