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):
- Full name and titles
- Year of birth and death
- A biographical sketch
- 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:
- This document is a first draft.
- 192 authors are listed (over 45 women among them)
- The chapter: ‘Relevant social developments, phenomena and movements in the period 1915 – 1938 needs further elaboration.
- Contributors are listed in alphabetical order of their surname.
- 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:
- Gods Garden sept 1922 by whom??
- SUGGESTED BY THE SHELLEY MEMORIAL IN
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OXFORD. Two poems. June 1923 source? - The Soul and the Beloved (September 1923, page 21 by whom?)
- Karma and Reincarnation, December 1923 p. 5 by whom?
- Spiritual Healing, March 1924, by whom? Kefayat Lloyd?
- Who is hidden behind the alias Burkerar? A poem in March 1924 called: Response
