The Sufi Order of the West

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The Merrell-Wolff Library

Flyer listing books and magazines, and a correspondence course for sale (and for lending) at the time the Wolffs were associated with the International Sufi Movement. (1 page)

ca. 1923 read or download
Memories of Inayat Khan

In 1923, Wolff and his wife Sherifa became associated with the International Sufi Movement, an organization founded by Hazrat Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan. The couple worked closely with Khan for a period of about three months and formed a Los Angeles chapter of the Sufi Movement, but they withdrew from this work after finding it too difficult to work under the organization’s chief operating officer. Unfortunately, the documentation of this period of Wolff's life remains outstanding, so these details are sketchy. At the age of ninety-one, Wolff recorded some of his remembrances of this period in his life; this recording has been transcribed here. The attached article contains some of Wolff’s impressions of the Sufi master. (2 pages—transcription)

ca. 1935 read or download