Pir Netanel (Mu'in ad-Din) Miles-Yépez (b. 1972) is the current head of the Inayati-Maimuni lineage of Sufism. An artist, writer, philosopher, and scholar of comparative religion, Pir Netanel was brought up in a Mexican-American family with Jewish heritage. At Michigan State University, he studied History of Religions with various noted religion scholars, and later pursued graduate studies in Contemplative Religion at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, before pursuing more traditional studies and training in both Sufism and Hasidism with his murshid and rebbe, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014), the famous pioneer of interspiritual dialogue and founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, as well as masters of various other traditions, including Father Thomas Keating. He has been deeply involved in ecumenical dialogue and is considered a leading thinker in the Interspiritual and New Monasticism movements. He is the author of In the Teahouse of Experience: Nine Talks on the Path of Sufism (2020), The Merging of Two Oceans: Nine Talks on Sufism and Hasidism (2021), Mirror of Love: Meditations n the Sufi Path of Love (2022), and the editor of The Bowl of Saqi: A Sufi Book of Days (2021), The Gathekas: A Universalist Sufi Catechism (2021), and Gayatri (2024), a universalist Sufi prayerbook.