Dream Flowers: the Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan with an introduction by Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan, GC, (1914-1944) is remembered as an outstanding hero of the Second World War. She was also a folklorist and writer of considerable gifts. Dream Flowers collects a number of her never-before-published pieces in addition to her major published works: “Twenty Jataka Tales,” “King Akbar’s Daughter,” and “Aede of the Ocean and Land.” The introduction elucidates the author’s unique literary contribution to the elaboration of Sufism in the West.
“To know Noor’s mind and heart, there is no better place to turn than to her literary creations. Noor’s retellings of twenty jātaka tales have remained in print for much of the last century, but other stories from her pen, and her singular mystical drama Aède of the Ocean and Land , have only recently seen publication. Now, at last, it is possible to bring all of Noor’s principal works together under a single cover.
The pages that follow present and contextualize the greater part of Noor’s oeuvre, including several hitherto unpublished pieces. The emerging picture reveals the visionary world of a cosmopolitan author whose constant concern is the life of the soul. Noor’s imagination ranges down the centuries and across the globe, illuminating a tableau of human, animal, and elfin lives together working out a destiny ordained in heaven. Throughout her incantory wanderings, a seamless continuity links Noor’s ethical and spiritual vision with that of her father, the musician and mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan. To borrow Noor’s words, it was he whose footsteps unveiled her dazzled eyes.” From the introduction by Pir Zia Inayat Khan
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“A luminous and delicate collection that takes us into the inner world of Noor Inayat Khan, reflecting the courage, sensitivity and sacrifice that would shape her life and death. Moving and inspirational.”
—Shrabani Basu author of Spy Princess: the Life of Noor Inayat Khan
“It is not your sword that makes you king; it is love alone. Forget not that your life is but little to give if in giving you secure the happiness of your people.” Noor Inayat Khan, the incomparable and inspiring sufi, spy, musician and writer lived and served by these incredible ideals. This new collection of her work, full of hope and wonder, shows us how to find meaning in life by leading with compassion, having humility, acting with kindness and respecting all of God’s creatures.”
—Naheed Hasnat Senzai, award-winning author of Escape from Aleppo , Ticket to India, and Saving Kabul Corner