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Scans of documents referenced in Hazrat Inayat Khan’s Biography

Many interesting documents regarding the life of Hazrat Inayat Khan that are in the collection of the Biographical Department, have been scanned and can be accessed by clicking on the picture of the biography

Viladat and Hejrat Day Speeches and Presentations

During the years that Inayat Khan lived in Suresnes, and also until the early thirties of the the twentieth century, mureeds used to mark  important dates for Inayat Khan with speeches, and reading out telegrams and letters.  This took place both at Viladat Day (his birthday) and the anniversary of his departure from India to America (Hejrat Day). 

A number of these contributions have been collected, partly typed out from handwritten originals, and can be found below.  

Also, mureeds used to present beautifully embellished birthday wishes, mostly with the signatures of attendants or senders affixed. These are known as ‘presentations’ 

 

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan’s address at an Oude Loo conference in 1952
Recently we restored one of the hidden treasures in the Nekbakht archives: a very old wire recording, containing a speech by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, delivered at an Oude Loo conference in 1952. You can listen to the recording (it is not sure whether it is in Pir Vilayat’s own voice), and/or read the written text and the background document compiled by Ines van Dijk. 

Music scans

Title

Composer(s)

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A sufi prayer

Hidayat Khan

words: Shabaz Best

Awake for Morning

Inayat Khan

together with Albert Edwards

Ay Mere Moula 

Musharaff Khan

Before you judge

Maheboob Khan

Berceuse

Hidayat  Khan

handwritten, April 1932

Concepto en Do pour violoncelle

Vilayat  Khan

May 1932

Every Breath in Thy Thought

Maheboob Khan

Hindostani Chants

Maheboob Khan

Improvisatio Tzigane

Hidayat Khan

July 1932

Hindostani Chants

Maheboob Khan

Indian music

Prof. Moula Bux

adapted on European System and Notation 

Kalyan (Thy music cuases my soul to dance)

Maheboob Khan

Noor’s Poem to Wireless Operators

Notation of Music

Prof. Moula Bux (Maula Baksh)

Naat

Maheboob Khan

O Hazrat Inayat

Musharaff Khan

Satar Shikshak

Mr. Bapat

pupil of Maula Baksh

Song to the Madzub

Noor Inayat Khan

handwritten

Song to the Madzub

Noor Inayat Khan

printed

Songs of Maheboob Khan 

Maheboob Khan

The Butterflies

Yousouf van Ingen

Noor Inayat Khan, words and drawings

Thy wish 

Maheboob Khan 

Turn me not away

Maheboob Khan 

Why oh my feeling heart

Maheboob Khan 

title page

Why oh my feeling heart

Maheboob Khan 

part I

Why oh my feeling heart

Maheboob Khan 

part II

You are my life

Maheboob Khan 

Directions to the graves of Nekbakht, the Four Murshidas and the Three Companions 

Gravestone Goodenough
The Four Murshidas
begraafplaats-oud-eik
The Three Companions
Nekbakht
Nekbakht