Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Introduction by Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Noor Inayat Khan

ISBN 10: 1941810349 / ISBN 13: 9781941810347

Published by Omega Publications, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Introduction by Pir Zia Inayat Khan
• Publisher: Omega Publications
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1941810349
• ISBN 13: 9781941810347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Noor Inayat Khan, GC, (1914-1944) is remembered as an outstanding hero of the Second World War. She was also a folklorist and writer of considerable gifts. Dream Flowers collects her major works, and additionally includes a number of never-before-published pieces. The introduction elucidates the author's unique literary contribution to the elaboration of Sufism in the West.

About the Author

Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944) was the eldest child of the renowned Indian philosopher Hazrat Inayat Khan and his American wife Ameena Begum. Noor studied psychology and music in Paris and wrote stories for children, including the collection Twenty Jataka Tales, first published in 1939. Following the Nazi occupation of France, Noor was recruited by Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive. As an undercover agent in Paris, she served as a key link between the SOE and the French Resistance. Betrayed and captured, she was executed at Dachau, posthumously receiving the George Cross and Croix de Guerre.
 
Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, carries the Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. His previous books include Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest and Mingled Waters: Sufism & the Mystical Unity of Religions.