Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (Urdu:عنایت خان رحمت خان; 5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927) was an Indian professor ofmusicology, singer, exponent of thesaraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission ofSufism to the West.^[2] At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and authorization at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani (d. 1907) ofHyderabad, he established an order of Sufism (the Sufi Order) in London in 1914. By the time of his death in 1927, centers had been established throughout Europe and North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had been published.^[3]

Hazrat Inayat Khan
عنایت خان رحمت خان
Title	Pir-o-Murshid Shaikh al-Mashaikh Tansen Zamanihal Yüzkhan Bakhshi Shah Mir-Khayl[1]
Personal life
Born	Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (1882-07-05)July 5, 1882 Baroda,Bombay Presidency,British India
Died	February 5, 1927(1927-02-05) (aged 44) New Delhi, British India
Spouse	PiraniAmeena Begum
Children	Vilayat;Hidayat;Noor; Khair-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Creed	Sufism
Profession	Musician,Pir,Musicologist
Muslim leader
Successor	Vilayat
Universel Murad Hassil, Netherlands
Sant andPir
Venerated in	Inayatiyya;Western Sufism
Majorshrine	Dargah in Hazrat Nizamuddin, Delhi
Influences	Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani
Influenced	Universal Sufism
Tradition or genre	Chishti, and other major Sufitariqa

Inayat Khan was born inBaroda to a nobleMughal family. His paternal ancestors, comprising yüzkhans (Central Asian lords) and bakshys (shamans), wereTurkmen from theChagatai Khanate who settled inSialkot,Punjab during the reign of AmirTimur. Inayat Khan's maternal grandfather, Sangit Ratna Maulabakhsh Sholay Khan, was a Hindustani classical musician and educator known as “the Beethoven of India.” His maternal grandmother, Qasim Bibi, was from the royal house ofTipu Sultan of Mysore.^[4]

Inayat Khan's Sufi sources included both the traditions of his paternal ancestors (remembered as the Mahashaikhan) and the tutelage he received from Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani.^{[4]: 3–64} From the latter he inherited four transmissions, constituting succession in theChishti,Suhrawardi,Qadiri, andNaqshbandi orders ofSufism. Of these, the Chishti lineage, traced through the Delhi-based legacy ofShah Kalim Allah Jahanabadi, was primary.^[5]

Inayat Khan toured the United States with his brotherMaheboob Khan and cousinMohammed Ali Khan between the years 1910 and 1912. Further travels took him to England, France, and Russia. During the First World War, living in London, he oversaw the founding of an order of Sufism under his guidance. Following the war he traveled widely, and numerous Sufi centers sprang up in his wake in Europe and the U.S. He ultimately settled inSuresnes,France, at the house andkhanqah (Sufi lodge) known as Fazal Manzil.^{[citation needed]}

Inayat Khan's teaching emphasized the oneness of God (tawhid) and the underlying harmony of the revelations communicated by theprophets of all the world's greatreligions. His discourses treated such varied subjects as religion, art, music, ethics, philosophy, psychology, and health and healing. The primary concern of Inayat Khan's teaching was the mystical pursuit of God-realization.^[6] To this end he established an Inner School comprising four stages of contemplative study based on the traditional Sufi disciplines ofmujahada,muraqaba,mushahada, andmu‘ayyana, which he rendered in English as concentration, contemplation, meditation, and realization.^{[7]: 218–227}

Ten principles, known as the Ten Sufi Thoughts, enunciate the universal spiritual values that are foundational to Inayat Khan's mystical philosophy.^{[7]: 3–13}

1. There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none exists save God.
2. There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads followers towards the light.
3. There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture which can enlighten the reader.
4. There is One Religion, the unswerving progress in the right direction towards the ideal, which fulfills the life's purpose of every soul.
5. There is One Law, the law of reciprocity, which can be observed by a selfless conscience together with a sense of awakened justice.
6. There is One Brotherhood and Sisterhood, the human brotherhood and sisterhood, which unites the children of earth indiscriminately in the Parenthood of God.
7. There is One Moral, the love which springs forth from self-denial, and blooms in deeds of beneficence.
8. There is One Object of Praise, the beauty which uplifts the heart of its worshippers through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.
9. There is One Truth, the true knowledge of our being, within and without, which is the essence of all wisdom.
10. There is One Path, the annihilation of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality, and in which resides all perfection.

In New York, he met the woman who would become his wife, Ora RayAmeena Begum née Baker. They had four children:Vilayat Inayat Khan,Hidayat Inayat Khan,Noor Inayat Khan, and Khair-un-Nisa Inayat Khan.^{[citation needed]}

In 1926 Inayat Khan returned to India; he died of pneumonia in Delhi on 5 February 1927.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} He is buried in the Inayat Khandargah in Nizamuddin, Delhi. The dargah is open to the public and hostsqawwali sessions.^[13]

• Balasan Gitmala
• Sayaji Garbawali
• Inayat Git Ratnawali
• Inayat Harmonium Shikshak
• Inayat Fidal Shikshak
• Minqar-i Musiqar

• 1914A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty
• 1915The Confessions of Inayat Khan
• 1918A Sufi Prayer of Invocation
• Hindustani Lyrics
• Songs of India
• The Divan of Inayat Khan
• Akibat
• 1919Love, Human and Divine
• The Phenomenon of the Soul
• Pearls from the Ocean Unseen
• 1921In an Eastern Rosegarden
• 1922The Way of Illumination
• The Message
• 1923The Inner Life
• The Mysticism of Sound
• Notes from the Unstruck Music from the Gayan Manuscript
• The Alchemy of Happiness
• 1924The Soul—Whence and Whither
• 1926The Divine Symphony, or Vadan

• 1927Nirtan, or The Dance of the Soul
• The Purpose of Life
• 1928The Unity of Religious Ideals
• 1931Health
• Character Building; The Art of Personality
• 1934Education
• 1935The Mind World
• Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
• 1936The Bowl of Saki
• The Solution of the Problem of the Day
• 1937Cosmic Language
• Moral Culture
• 1938Rassa Shastra: The Science of Life's Creative Forces
• 1939Three Plays
• Metaphysics: The Experience of the Soul in Different Planes of Existence
• 1980Nature Meditations

• 1960–1967The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, 12 volumes
• 1988–Complete Works of Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan: Original Texts, 12 volumes (to date)
• 2016–The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Centennial Edition, 4 volumes (to date)

• Inayati Order
• Vilayat Inayat Khan (son)
• Western Sufism
• Zia Inayat Khan (grandson, current president of theInayati Order)

• Works by Inayat Khan atProject Gutenberg
• Works by Inayat Khan atLibriVox (public domain audiobooks) 
• Works by or about Inayat Khan at theInternet Archive
• Hazrat Inayat Khan: A Sufi maestro in Moscow.