Volledige kroniek van de Nederlandse Soefi historie: Periode van 1915 tot 2016

Contributors to The Sufi (Quarterly)

Contributors to The Sufi (Quarterly)

Preface

General Information on The Sufi (Quarterly)

The Sufi magazine has appeared under various names and sub-titles over the years and had several editors.

Sufi

1915 – 1920 Sufi (A Quarterly Sufi Message)
editor: Hazrat Inayat Khan,    sub-editors Regina Miriam Bloch and  Zohra Williams
5 years, 14 issues

Sufism

1921 – 1924 Sufism (A Quarterly Magazine for seekers after truth)
editor: Sophia Saintsbury Green
4 years, 15 issues

The Sufi Quarterly

(June) 1925 – (December) 1932 The Sufi Quarterly 
editor: Mumtaz Armstrong
7 years

The Sufi

1933 – 1940 The Sufi, A Bi-Annual Journal of Mysticism
editor: Margaret Skinner
7 years

Issues of Armstrong and Skinner combined: 23 issues (1915-1936) republished by the Nekbakht Foundation (see below) and 12 additional issues (1937-spring 1940)

First issue: February 1915 – Last issue: Spring 1940

Total amount of issues: 64

Contributors listed so far: 192

All entries contain the following information (as far as this information was available):

  1. Full name and titles
  2. Year of birth and death
  3. A biographical sketch
  4. A reference to the arcticles this person has written and in which issues they can be found.

You can download the full document by clicking the following link: contributors to the SQ with cover pdf

Some notes:

  1. This document is a first draft.
  2. 192 authors are listed (over 45 women among them)
  3. The chapter: ‘Relevant social developments, phenomena and movements in the period 1915 – 1938 needs further elaboration.
  4. Contributors are listed in alphabetical order of their surname.
  5. Almost all issues can be consulted in the archive of the Anna Paulownastraat 78 in The Hage, Holland. Requests for scans can be made at: paulus258@gmail.com. One can also cunsult the Nekbakht modern editions that appeared between 2020 and 2022: Sufi (1915-1920), Sufism (1921-1924) and The Sufi Record (1925-1936). All published by Alba Publishing Uxbridge, UK.

 

Unsolved questions:

  1. Gods Garden sept 1922 by whom??
  2. SUGGESTED BY THE SHELLEY MEMORIAL IN
    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. Two poems. June 1923 source?
  3. The Soul and the Beloved (September 1923, page 21 by whom?)
  4. Karma and Reincarnation, December 1923 p. 5 by whom?
  5. Spiritual Healing, March 1924, by whom? Kefayat Lloyd?
  6. Who is hidden behind the alias Burkerar? A poem in March 1924 called: Response