List of Historical facts

 

(For a detailed survey of the period 1882 – 1927, see A Pearl in Wine, p.81 onwards)

1833

• Birth of Shole Khan Maula Bakhsh. Maternal grandfather of Hazrat Inayat Khan

1843

• Birth of Mashaik Rahmat (Ullah) Khan, son of Mashaik Bahadur Khan, father of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Birth of Khatija Biy Maula Bakhsh, mother of Hazrat Inayat Khan

1869

• Birth of Allauddin Khan (Dr. A.M. Pathan) Maulabakhsh’ younger son, Inayat Khan’s Uncle.

1880

• Marriage of Rahmat Khan and Khatija Biy

1881

• July 7, birthday Jagirdar Mohammed Ali Khan Thopezay, cousin-brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan

1882

• July 5, birthday of Hazrat Inayat Khan, later celebrated as Viladat-day

1887

• June 6, birthday Shaikh-ul-Mashaik Mir Pyarumiyan (Pyaromir) Maheboob Khan

1895

• September 7, birthday Pir-o-Murshid Musharaff Moulamia Khan the youngest brother of Hazrat Inayat Khan

1896

• July 10, death of Shole Khan Maulabakhsh Ghise Khan, maternal grandfather of Hazrat Inayat Khan.

1896

• Inayat Khan travels in Nepal with his father for a year

1899

• Hazrat Inayat Khan becomes teacher and later professor at the Gayanshala (musical school) of Baroda

1900

• Death of Inayat’s brother Karamat, his mother Khadija Bi and his first wife

1902

• Inayat Khan remarries, but his wife (Amiran Biy from Jaipur) dies the same year. Later in the same year he travels to Madras

1903

• Inayat Khan moves to Secundarabad (near Hyderabad) till 1907. Here he writes Minqar-i-Musiqar, and develops a friendship with the ruling Nizam (emperor). Here he also finds his Murshid Abu Hashim Madani and his academic teacher Professor Hashami.

1907

• Murshid Abu Hashim Madani dies

1907-1910

• Inayat Khan travels to several parts of India and gives many concerts and lectures on music (see below for a full list of the travels of Hazrat Inayat Khan)

1910

• Rahmat Khan, Inayat’s father dies in the spring of this year
• Hejirat day 13 September. Hazrat Inayat, Maheboob and Muhammed Ali Khan depart from Baroda by train and travel by boat to America from Bombay via Napels.

1911

• 16 April. Ada Martin visits a lecture of Hazrat Inayat Khan in the Hindu temple in San Francisco and later on becomes his first mureed.

1912

• February: Musharaff Moulamia Khan journeys to America and joins his brothers.

1913

• Ora Ray Baker journeys from America to London to marry Hazrat Inayat Khan on the 20^th of March of that year

1914

• 1^st of January, birth of the first daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Pirzadi Noor- un-nisa, during a stay in Moscow.
• Through the efforts of Murshida Rabia Ada Martin a Sufi Temple has been opened in San Francisco by the American branch of the Order, the inauguration being celebrated in London on Friday, November 1st, 1914. (source: Sufi, first issue 1915)

1915

• February, by now in London: first edition of the magazine The Sufi, A Quarterly Magazine
• Foundation of the Sufi Publishing Society
• Foundation of the Khankah, the official headquarters of the Sufi Order in the house at 86 Ladbroke Road, London. Inauguration on 15 October.

1916

• June 19, birth of Pirzade Vilayat Khan, son of Hazrat Inayat Khan

1917

• August 6, birth of Murshidzade Hidayat Khan, son of Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Establishment of Hejirat day as an official Sufi celebration
• Foundation of the Sufi Order in London

1919

• June 3, birth Khairunnisa Inayat Khan (Claire Harper), youngest daughter of Hazrat Inayat Khan

1920

• Hazrat Inayat Khan moves with his family from London to France (Tremblaye)

1921

• Hazrat Inayat Khan visits The Netherlands for the first time. He visits the city of Arnhem, where he is welcomed by Baron Van Tuyll van Serooskerken and Yousouf van Ingen.
• May 7, introduction of Universal Worship within the Sufi Movement, at 35 Tregunter Road, London, the house of Kefayat Lloyd.
• Hazrat Inayat Khan visits The Netherlands for the second time. After an initial uncertainty about the precise time and place of arrival, he eventually ends up at the family Van Goens van Beyma in The Hague. This is the start of a long and close relationship between both families.
• November 18. The other brothers visit the family Van Goens van Beyma. The contact results in the marriage in 1924 of Shaikh Khalif Maheboob Khan and Shadbiy van Goens van Beyma. This day is still annually celebrated within the family circle.

1922

• Hazrat Inayat Khan both received a blessing and blessed a place in the dunes near ‘Katwijk aan Zee’ (by the sea) and names the place: ‘Murad Hassil” (wish fulfilled)
• September 3, first Universal Worship in The Netherlands.
• Hazrat Inayat Khan relocates the Headquarters office (IHQ) of the Sufi Movement to Geneva.

1923

• August 9: Sharifa Goodenough and Sophia Saintsbury Green are appointed Murshida
• October 11. Founding of the official Sufi Movement. The International Headquarters (IHQ) is located in Geneva, statutes of the movement are formulated, on the instructions of Hazrat Inayat Khan, by Mr. Birbal de Cruzat Zanetti.

1924

• June 10, marriage Shaikh Khalif Maheboob Khan with Shadbiy van Goens van Beyma
• August: founding of the Institut Universel Soufi. Aim: annual organization of the Summer School in Suresnes
• 3 October: Hazrat Inayat Khan signs a contract with IHQ in which he gives copyright of all his books and other work to IHQ.
• October: founding Societé Anonyme Soufi. Aim: maintenance of the property in Suresnes, mureeds house and Sufi land.

1925

• April 30, birth of the first child (a daughter) of ShuM Maheboob Khan and Shadbiy van Goens – van Beyma. The daughter was named Raheem-un-nisa by Hazrat Inayat Khan
• In this year in Paris an Andalusian Mosque is commissioned by the Moroccan authorities. Inayat Khan suggests that his mureeds hire the foreign construction workers and craftsmen while they are living in Paris to build a Universel on the Sufi land (opposite Fazal Manzil, Suresnes). The plan eventually fails. Instead of a Universel a simple Lecture Hall is built at the back of the Sufi land.

1926

• September 13, symbolic cornerstone ceremony of the future Universel in Suresnes, captured on film by Jan Wildschut. This was never built, but the cornerstone is now housed in the Universel built in 1990 by Pir Vilayat in the garden of Fazal Manzil. The Sufi Movement had to wait until 1970, when in Katwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands, a first Universel was built.
• Beginning of November; Hazrat Inayat Khan arrives in New Delhi.

1927

• February 5, death/Urs of Hazrat Inayat Khan, annually rememberd as Visalat-day.
• November 10, birth of Mahmood Khan the son of Shaikh-ul-Mashaik Maheboob Khan and Shadbiy van Goens van Beyma.

1929

• Opening of the Church of All by Sirdar Van Tuyll van Serooskerken, Anna Paulownastraat 7, The Hague

1930

• June14 and 15. Important meeting of the Jamiat Am Council where the majority agreed to appoint Maheboob Khan as esoteric leader of the Sufi Movement ie the successor of Hazrat Inayat Khan. Sirdar Van Tuyll, Sarferaz Meyer de Reutercrona, Mumtaz Armstrong, Fröken Kjösterud and Shabaz Best voted against the motion. They all left the Sufi Movement shortly after that (some only temporarily).

1933

• January 7, opening of the Sufi building, Bazarstraat 20, The Hague

1934

• Suresnes Affair 1, investigations into the financial actions of the Societé Anonyme Soufi (S.A.S.) as managing body of the plot of land with the Mureeds house behind Fazal Manzil and the land opposite Fazal Manzil on which the lecture hall was built. The investigations were a result of the conflicts of interest between IHQ in Geneva (under the direction of Dussaq) and the S.A.S (under the direction of Van Stolk). Or as Wazir van Essen put it: Headquarters versus Heartquarters (see Jironet, Sufi Mysticism in the West)

1940

• June 25, Maheboob and Ali Khan are sent to a Dutch Camp at Schoorl in North Holland by the German occupiers. After 10 days on July 5^th 1940 they are released because, despite their British passports, they prove to be Indians and thus non-British.

1942

• Birth of Fazal Inayat-Khan on the 20th of June. Son of Hidayat Inayat-Khan and Leny Flentge

1943

• November 5, Musharaff Moulamia Khan arrives with his wife in Bombay

1946

• Death of Savitri van Rossum Duchattel, first wife of Musharaff Moulamia Khan
• From this year the Summer Schools of ISM are no longer held in Suresnes, France, but in The Netherlands, respectively in De Bilt, Hilversum, The Hague and finally in Katwijk aan Zee.

1947               

• Start of the Sufi Youth Brotherhood, by Maheboob Khan following a proposal made by Gawery Voûte. Leadership of the SYB was originally in the hands of Elise Schamhart and shortly afterwards Karimbakhsh Witteveen followed by Subhan van Lohuizen. In the sixties Salim Lange became chairman.
• Murshida Rabia Martin dies. Her movement is split: Sufi Islamia Ruhaniat Society (Sam Lewis) and the Sufism Reoriented (Mrs. Ivy Duce by then under the influence of the Indian Guru Meher Baba)

1948

• May 15, marriage of Musharaff Moulamia Khan and Shahzadi de Koningh
• July 3, death of Shaikh-ul-Mashaik Maheboob Khan

1949

• May 1, death of Amina Begum (Ora Ray Baker) wife of Hazrat Inayat Khan, mother of Noor-un-nisa, Vilayat, Hidayat and Khair-un-nisa (Clair)

1953

• June 7, death of Murshid Talewar Dussaq, long term Secretary-General of the IHQ.

1955

• The grounds of Murad Hassil at the dunes near Katwijk aan Zee become the property of the Sufi Movement on a long lease from the Government

1956

• Suresnes Affair 2, conflict around the expropriation procedure of the Sufi land opposite of Fazal Manzil in Suresnes. (see Jironet, Sufi Mysticism in the West). Eventually the Sufi Movement loses the total property as it was compulsorily purchased by the Suresnes Mayor for the benefit of building homes for the people of Paris and Suresnes.
• In Geneva Vilayat Inayat-Khan tries to claim the leadership of the Sufi Movement, eventually without success. (see Jironet, Sufi Mysticism in the West)

1958

• August 28: Death of Pir-o-Murshid Ali Khan
• October 4: funeral of Pir-o-Murshid Ali Khan at the Pulchri building at the Lange Voorhout in The Hague.

1959

• November 22, death of Nurzadi Aysha Khanim (born C.J. Vodegel), first wife of ShuM Mahmood Khan.

1962

• January 6. Opening Sufi Darbar, at Banstraat 24, The Hague, at the same time residence of Murshid Musharaff and Murshida Shazadi. 70 seats. (Darbar is Persian for ‘court’, ‘place of gathering’.)

1967

• November 30: death of Pir-o-Murshid Musharaff Moulamia Khan, Fazal Inayat Khan accepts leadership of the Sufi Movement at the request of the administration (IHQ).

1968

• Foundation of Sufi Order International by Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan

1969

• March 21 cornerstone ceremony the Universel Murad Hassil in Katwijk aan Zee

1970

• July 4 and 5: Opening Murad Hassil in Katwijk aan Zee (report in Dutch: in SG September 1970)
• Rare footage of Murshid Sam leading collective dancing click here

1971

• Birth of Seraphiel (Zia) Inayat Khan at Novato California, son of Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan and Taj Inayat. Pir Zia is the current leader of the Inayati Order.

1974

• Founding of Soefi Contact by Gawery Voûte

1975

• Pir Vilayat settels in The Abode of the Message in New Lebanon in the State of New York

1978

• Sufi Shirdil Amin Richard Macko creates his order The Fraternity of Light. He is a pupil of Vilayat Inayat Khan.

1982

• July 4: Fazal Inayat Khan hands over the leadership of the Sufi Movement to a co-operative Leadership Council of ‘Initiatic Lines’, July 5 founding of a wide leadership council including Pir Vilayat and Murshid Fazal in an attempt to join all ‘Hazrati’ Initiatic Lines.

1987

• August 27, death Mashaikha-Begum Shadbiy Maheboob Khan, widow of ShuM Maheboob Khan.

1990

• Death of Fazal Inayat Khan

1992

• Completion of the building of the Wakilhouse (a room for coffee, tea and meals) at the Universel Murad Hassil in Katwijk aan Zee.

1995

• July 5: 25^th anniversary of the Universel Murad Hassil
• November 30: death of Murshida Shahzadi Khan – de Koningh, third wife of Pir-o-Murshid Musharaff Moulamia Khan

1997

• September: the Universal Worship gatherings of the two centres in The Hague are combined from this point and held at the 78 Anna Paulownastraat

1998

• Founding of the Federation of the Sufi Message, first affiliated organizations: ISM and Ruhaniat. In later years the Inayyati Order, the Sufi Way, the Fraternity of Light and the Inayati-Maimuni Order will join the Federation as well. See: http://federationsufimessage.org/

2004

• Death of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan on June 17 in Suresnes. Leader of the Sufi Order International. He is succeeded by his son Pir Zia Inayat Khan.

2009

• April 20.The Pir-o-Murshid title (head of the inner school) is connected to a Council and no longer to one person (till then Murshid Hidayat). The Council consists of the heads of the 5 different activities and the General Secretary of the IHQ.

2010

• September 13: 100^th anniversary of Hejirat day

2016

• January 2: Pir Zia changes the name of the Sufi Order International to: The Inayyati Sufi Order
• September 12, Hidayat Inayat-Khan dies in Munich, age 99