Rahmana liba ba’yey, ve’liba ba’yey Rahmana.
“The Compassionate One desires the heart, and the heart desires the Compassionate One.”
The Inayati-Maimuni Order is a lineage of Sufi spiritual development based in the teachings and practices of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927). Founded in 2004 by Pir Zalman Sulayman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014), z”l, and his khalifa, Pir Netanel Mu’in ad-Din Miles-Yépez (b. 1972), the order brings together the Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan with the Hasidic lineage of Schachter-Shalomi, founder of the Jewish Renewal movement. But because it is not the first time that these two mystical paths associated with Islam and Judaism have been brought together, we are named ‘Maimuni’ to honor the original Egyptian Sufi-Hasidism practiced by Avraham Maimuni of Fustat (1186-1237), our forerunner, who successfully combined these paths as far back as the 13th-century. For this reason, we are called the Inayati-Maimuni tariqa, honoring both Hazrat Inayat Khan's vision of Sufism as a universal approach to spirituality and Avraham Maimuni's radical innovation which made a peaceful marriage between Jewish Hasidism and Islamic Sufism in a time of conflict between the Abrahamic traditions. And yet, while honoring these connections, the Inayati-Maimuni Order is first and foremost universalist in orientation and broadly Abrahamic second, having Christian connections as well. The community is currently led by Pir Netanel Mu’in ad-Din al-Inayati al-Maimuni and is based in Boulder, Colorado.
