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 committed to a path of spiritual development based upon both Sufi and Hasidic principles and practices. In this order, the Sufi lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the first Sufi master to bring Sufism into the West, has been joined to the Hasidic lineage of Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014), 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 endeavor to connect to and renew the spirit of the original Egyptian Sufi-Hasidism practiced by Rabbi 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. Founded in 2004 by Pir Zalman Sulayman Schachter-Shalomi, z”l, and his khalifa, Pir Netanel Mu’in ad-Din Miles-Yépez, the community is currently led by the latter, and based in Colorado. More information on the history of Sufi and Jewish interactions, and how these two lineages have been fused in the Inayati-Maimuni tariqa, can be gleaned from this dialogue with Pir Netanel Mu’in ad-Din, based on his book, The Merging of Two Oceans: Nine Talks on Sufism and Hasidism.