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Sufi Order

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Corporate name headingSufi Order
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See alsoPredecessor: Sufi Order in the West
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Successor: Sufi Order International
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Special noteSufi Order as a preferred name appears to have had a complex history some involving uncertain dates, but was used shortly after Sufi Order in the West on a later issue of the same resource (see 1st 670). The preferred name does appear to have changed to: Sufi Order International at an unspecified time. This order's preferred name became Inayati Order in 2016 and this name was still in place as of June 25, 2021 (see https://inayatiorder.org/our-new-name/)
Found inEmergence (Lebanon Springs, N.Y.), 198u- : Volume 1, number 3 (Summer, 1988), page 1 (Emergence is a quarterly publication of the Sufi Order in the West). volume II, number 4 (Autumn 1989), cover page 2 (Emergence is a quarterly publication of the Sufi Order (founded by Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan).
Inayati Order, Our New Name, viewed June 30, 2021: (He founded The Sufi Order in London in 1918 and The Sufi Movement in Geneva in 1923). (After Murshid's death, his brothers and cousin successively led The Sufi Movement. To distinguish his own lineage and circle of mureeds, Murshid's elder son Pir Vilayat revived the name "The Sufi Order" in 1968 (later updated as The Sufi Order International)).
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