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Ruhaniat Press is an updated imprint from Sufi Ruhaniat International (2016). With reinvigorated focus, Ruhaniat Press moves forward with important publications that add to the wealth of spiritual wisdom inspiring seekers toward inner and outer love, harmony, and beauty.
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A Gift of Life: Aphorisms and Poems
Moineddin Jablonski
Moineddin Jablonski (1942-2001) was the spiritual successor of Murshid Samuel L. Lewis. This collection, the first of his writings to be formally published, offers glimpses of Moineddin's wisdom, depth, humor and profoun…
Across the Difficult with Rabia Basra and Others
Tamam Kahn
Tamam Kahn's poetry carries bright exuberance, as well as empathy and sorrow. Her work is inspired by the mystical Middle East, and her time in Morocco and Syria. The poems are anchored with her research on women from ea…
Attunement, Direction and Forgiving
Wali van der Zwan
Themes as heaven and hell, morality and ethics, forgiving, gratitude and trust, and our ability to cope with adversities and misfortunes, show the timelessness of this prayer. Themes like low self-worth offer the readers…
Becoming Honey
Jahanara Laura Mangus
By Jahanara Laura Mangus. In Becoming Honey, readers are invited to experience the transformative power of the Hail Mary Prayer as it was originally spoken-in Aramaic. This unique exploration of sound mysticism and femin…
Bridge of Waves: What Music is and How Listening to It Changes the World
Allaudin Mathieu
Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges…
Die Before Death
Mansur Johnson
Draw us Closer
Wali van der Zwan
Draw us closer focuses on the life, teachings and prayers of Hazrat Inayat Khan. The title of the book is taken from one of his prayers. Inayat Khan's prayers show a consistency and cover some of his main themes like mas…
Eat, Dance, and Pray Together
Wali van der Zwan
This volume brings together two earlier manuals for the Dances of Universal Peace, ‘On with the Dance!’ and ‘The Art of Dance leading and Mentoring’. 'On with the Dance!' was first published in 2006 and addresses the fir…
Fatima's Touch: Poems and Stories of the Prophet's Daughter
Tamam Kahn
Tamam explores Fatima's story in narrative and poetry, rarely told in the English language, revealing here her loving connection with her father, Prophet Muhammad, and bringing forward this important woman, known and lov…
God Who? A Spiritual Memoir
Kathleen McLaughlin
By Kathleen McLaughlin - Have you wanted to know who God is? Have you been frustrated with dogma that doesn't answer your questions? Have you wondered how you can know God if you don't know yourself? Kathleen was always …
Great Song, The Life and Teachings of Joe Miller
Richard Power
Edited by Richard Power - Joe Miller was an authentic American mystic who taught in many ways, the most famous being the Thursday morning walks through Golden Gate Park. Joe never charged for anything. On the contrary, h…
Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression
Allaudin Mathieu
An exploration of musical harmony from its ancient fundamentals to its most complex modern progressions, addressing how and why it resonates emotionally and spiritually in the individual. W. A. Mathieu, an accomplished a…
Illuminating the Shadow: The Life, Love and Laughter of a 20th century Sufi
Moineddin Jablonski
By Moineddin Jablonski, edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz Published by Ruhaniat Press Illuminating the Shadow collects the Sufi writings of Moineddin Carl Jablonski (1942-2001), the spiritual successor of Samuel L. Lewis, fou…
In the Family's Footsteps
Wali van der Zwan
In the Garden with Murshid Sam
Samuel L. Lewis, Wali Ali Meyer, and Fatima Lassar
Published by Ruhaniat Press A beautiful reprint of the classic 1975 book, In The Garden is a natural expression of the rising of the spiritual movement in the United States. A collection of Murshid SAM's writings, his st…
In the Vision of God: Experience in Continuation of In Quest of God
Swami Ramdas
by Swami Ramdas Published by Ruhaniat Press Swami Papa Ramdas was a being who was so fully awakened that he both was limitlessly free, and lived life to the fullest in human form. Through his continuing spiritual autobio…
Inayat Khan through the Eyes of his Students
Wali van der Zwan
Jerusalem Trilogy
Samuel L. Lewis
Samuel L. Lewis also known as Sufi Sam (October 18, 1896 – January 15, 1971) was an American mystic and horticultural scientist who founded what became the Sufi Ruhaniat International, a branch of the Chishtia Sufi linea…
Letters (to Mansur) from Moineddin
Mansur Johnson
Murshid: A Personal Memoir
Mansur Johnson
Noor's Grace
Tamam Kahn
This poetic biography explores the life of Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan (1914-1944), the multitalented daughter of Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), who has gained international acclaim for her heroic martyrdom as …
Physicians of the Heart: A Sufi View of the 99 Names of Allah
Wali Ali Meyer, Bilal Hyde, Faisal Muqaddam, Shabda Kahn
By Wali Ali Meyer, Bilal Hyde, Faisal Muqaddam, Shabda Kahn This book takes the reader into the heart of the mystery of the 99 sacred Names of Allah. It is a vehicle for understanding the infinite nature of God, and for …
Physicians of the Heart: Wazifa Card Deck
Pir Shabda Kahn
Based on the book, Physicians of the Heart The cards of the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah were created in response to numerous requests and serve as an adjunct to the book Physicians of the Heart authored by Pir Shabda Kah…
Sacred Voices: Stories from the Caravan of Women
Mariam Baker
By Mariam Baker with illustrations by Habiba Cynthia Dollard - Sacred Voices is a beautiful collection of stories, interviews, prayers, practices, and poetry, illuminated women's wisdom and history within the Islamic and…
Siva! Siva!: Crescent and Heart
Samuel L. Lewis
Siva! Siva! Is Murshid Samuel L. Lewis's account of the life and practice of Lord Shiva, told in verse, in the person of Shiva. He describes the realities behind the practices of Kama, Raja, Hatha, Karma, Tantra, and oth…
Sufi Vision & Initiation: Meetings with Remarkable Beings
Samuel L. Lewis, Neil Douglas-Klotz
By Samuel Lewis, edited by Neil Douglas-Klotz Published by Ruhaniat Press A moving personal history of how Sufism and Zen came to America. Lewis' meetings with remarkable beings include Swami Papa Ramdas, Nyogen Senzaki,…
Sunrise in the West: The Life of American Mystic Samuel L. Lewis
Wali Ali Meyer
By Murshid Wali Ali Meyer Published by Ruhaniat Press Murshid Wali Ali Meyer, along with his dedicated team, spent 8 years writing this biography, a 762 page book with 160 pictures. This captivating book traces the life …
The Bowl of Saki Commentary
Samuel L. Lewis, Wali Ali Meyer, Hazrat Inayat Khan
Published by Ruhaniat Press , Edited by Wali Ali Meyer This book of 366 daily aphorisms by Hazrat Inayat Khan with commentary by Murshid Samuel Lewis is a wealth of spiritual wisdom to help illuminate the sometimes rocky…
The Bowl of Saki Life of Samuel L. Lewis
Mansur Johnson
The Listening Book: Discovering Your Own Music
Allaudin Mathieu
The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and r…
The Musical Life
Allaudin Mathieu
Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader…
The Shrine Thief
Allaudin Mathieu
In this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 85th year. The stern father who built an empire of words; the solipsistic uncle whose hypnotic voice calmed mill…
The Sufi Path of Love and Understanding
Wali van der Zwan
Based on over 20 years of experience, the author brings together all major Sufi ideas about the spiritual path and our inner being. The wings of love and understanding shine light on the Sufi psychology of the heart. Fol…
This Praising Sound
Allaudin Mathieu
To me, sacred music celebrates a sense of wholeness, and evokes aspirations toward unity. We need to know that we live in a livable world where there is room for seeming opposites, including joy and suffering. We long fo…
Untold: A History of the Wives of Prophet Muhammad
Tamam Kahn
Tamam brings readers inside the life of the Prophet and his wives in a unique and intimate way. Tamam has crafted a caring and careful set of portraits of these important women of early Islamic history. She has consulted…
Wisdom Comes Dancing: Selected Works of Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis, Kamae A Miller
In this exposition of The Sacred Dance’, Miss Ruth's deep insights come alive in movement, the body, and in visions of physical expression in sacred time and form which transform our lives and the world we share. Availab…
Yours in the Infinite: The Correspondence between Hazrat Inayat Khan and Murshida Rabia Martin
Hazrat Inayat Khan, Rabia Ada Martin, Wali van der Zwan, Pir Shabda Kahn
Edited by Wali van der Zwan and Pir Shabda Kahn Published by Ruhaniat Press In 1910, the Indian Sufi mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927) sailed to the West, where he found he first Sufi student in Rabia Martin (1871-19…
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