Fazal Inayat-Khan
{{short description|Poet and new age spiritualist (1968–1982)}}
Fazal Inayat-Khan ({{langx|ur| فضل عنایت خان }}) (July 20, 1942 – September 26, 1990), also known as Frank Kevlin, was a psychotherapist and poet who led the Inayati Order from 1968 to 1982.Melton, Gordon J. and Baumann, Martin. Religions of the World, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. ABC-CLIO, p. 1482.
He was the author of Old Thinking, New Thinking: The Sufi prism (1979) and, published in Dutch, Modern soefisme: over creatieve verandering en spirituele groei (Modern Sufism: on creative change and spiritual growth) (1992).
Life and career
{{Neuro-linguistic programming|expanded=practitioners}}
Born in Montélimar,{{cite book|title=Heart of a Sufi: Fazal Inayat-Khan, A Prism Of Reflections|isbn=978-1-907303-01-2|publisher=Arch Ventures Press|year=2010}} Vichy France to a Dutch mother and the composer, Hidayat Inayat Khan, Inayat-Khan was brought up speaking Hindi, Dutch, English and French. His grandfather was Inayat Khan and his aunt was Noor Inayat Khan. Fazal Inayat-Khan is buried at the Oud Eik en Duinen cemetery in The Hague.
Inayat-Khan found work as a poet, psychotherapist and publisher. Finding that his family name influenced people's perception of his work, he changed his name legally to Frank Kevlin.{{cite journal|journal=Self and Society: European Journal of Humanistic Psychology|title=A Short Biography of Fazal Inayat-Khan 1942-1990}} As an early promoter of Neuro Linguistic Programming, he was the main motivating force behind the creation of the Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming.{{cite web|title=Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association - History |url=http://www.nlptca.com/history.php |access-date=2008-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225005443/http://www.nlptca.com/history.php |archive-date=2008-02-25 |url-status=dead }}
From 1968 to 1982 he was head of the Sufi Movement, a movement started by his grandfather and kept in the family.{{cite book | last = Jironet | first = Karin | title = The image of spiritual liberty in the western Sufi movement following Hazrat Inayat Khan | publisher = Peeters | year = 2002 | location = Leuven, Belgium | pages = 215–218 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ekw2nps4KcwC | isbn = 978-90-429-1205-2 }} He held that Sufism has three aspects: it is non-definitive, inclusive, and experiential –
- non-definitive because the real exists without needing to be defined;
- inclusive because it is found in all religions and accepts any form of worship or meditative practice that is appropriate to the moment;
- experiential because it goes beyond theology and second-hand spiritual experience, accepting the possibility of direct revelation.
Works
- {{cite book | last = Inayat-Khan | first = Fazal | title = Old thinking, new thinking: The Sufi prism | year = 1979 | publisher = Harper & Row | location = San Francisco | isbn = 0-06-064086-3 | url = https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060640863}}
- {{cite book | last = Inayat-Khan | first = Fazal | title = Modern soefisme : over creatieve verandering en spirituele groei (Modern Sufism: on creative change and spiritual growth) | year = 1992 | language = nl | publisher = Panta Rhei | location = Katwijk aan Zee | isbn = 90-73207-28-2|oclc=65771646}}
Notes
{{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Inayat-Khan, Fazal}}