Nizami is the pen-name of Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn Yusuf ibn Zaki
Mu’ayyad (c.1141–1209), a poet from the Transcaucasian city of
Ganja. The Story of Layla and Majnun is one of five epic poems
written by Nizami, and is considered to be a classic work of Sufi
literature.
Dr. Rudolf Gelpke (1928–1972) was a Swiss born Islamic scholar. He
studied at the University of Basel where he received his doctorate
in Islamic Studies in 1957. Later Gelpke would move to Iran, where
he taught at the University of Tehran and then later at the
University of Bern in Switzerland. Moreover, he served as an
associate professor at UCLA for a year between September 1962 and
May 1963. In the eight years he lived in Tehran, he also worked as
a freelance writer, who not only translated many famous historical
works but also published many of his own works.
Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher
of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather,
Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and
founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and
practice with offerings in North America and Europe, as well as
online. He is editor of A Pearl in Wine: Essays in the Life,
Music and Sufism of Hazrat Inayat Khan and Caravan of
Souls: An Introduction to the Sufi Path of Hazrat Inayat Khan, and
author of Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and
the Mystical Quest; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical
Unity of Religions; and Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of
Noor Inayat Khan with a Critical Commentary by Pir Zia Inayat Khan.
Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes,
France.
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