An innovative look at the interplay between the mystical traditions of Sufism and Hasidism from a leading practitioner-scholar.

In The Merging of Two Oceans, Pir Netanel Miles-Y�pez follows his In the Teahouse of Experience with a new collection of talks, laying the foundations for understanding the historical and spiritual connections between Sufism and Hasidism, two of the world’s great mystical traditions. Through a masterful weave of storytelling and scholarship, Miles-Y�pez explores a series of significant ‘meetings’ between these two traditions in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, details his own role in the formation of a new Sufi lineage connected with Hasidism, and offers a veritable bouquet of potent teachings drawing on the wisdom of both traditions. The Merging of Two Oceans is a boundary-pushing book that will fascinate and inspire admirers of these mystical traditions and their teachings, as well as spiritual seekers from all religious backgrounds.

The Merging of Two Oceans was published by Albion-Andalus and is distributed by Ayin Press (via Publishers Group West).

About the Author

Pir Netanel (Mu'in ad-Din) Miles-Y�pez is the current head of the Inayati-Maimuni Order of Sufism. An artist, writer, philosopher, and scholar of comparative religion, Pir Natanel first studied the History of Religions at Michigan State University before delving into Contemplative Religion at the Naropa Institute. He then pursued traditional studies and training in both Sufism and Hasidism with his pir and rebbe, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the famous pioneer in interfaith dialogue and comparative mysticism. Pir Natanel is the author of In the Teahouse of Experience: Nine Talks on the Path of Sufism (2020); the translator of My Love Stands Behind a Wall: A Translation of the Song of Songs and Other Poems (2015); coauthor of two critically acclaimed commentaries on Hasidic spirituality, A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters (2009) and A Hidden Light: Stories and Teachings of Early HaBaD and Bratzlav Hasidism (2011); and the editor of various works on Sufism and InterSpirituality. Currently, Pir Natanel lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is the chair of Wisdom Traditions at Naropa University.

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