RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Inayat Khan

1882 - 1927

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Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان رحمت خان; 5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927) was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the saraswati vina, poet, philosopher, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and authorization at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani (d. 1907) of Hyderabad, he established an order of Sufism (the Sufi Order) in London in 1914. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Inayat Khan has received more than 617,054 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Inayat Khan is the 1,561st most popular religious figure (down from 1,305th in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from India (down from 227th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Inayat Khan ranks 1,561 out of 3,187. Before her are Onufriy, John Albert Vasa, Eugène de Mazenod, Leo Joseph Suenens, Eucherius of Lyon, and Ngô Đình Thục. After her are Laura Vicuña, Maria Restituta Kafka, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Richard Williamson, Ankhesenpepi II, and Charles Lavigerie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Inayat Khan ranks 108. Before her are Shigenori Tōgō, Christian Mortensen, Harry Porter, Bronisław Huberman, Anna Schäffer, and Aurel Vlaicu. After her are Emma Jung, Walther Meissner, Robert Hichens, Kamo, Otto Weddigen, and Charles Devendeville. Among people deceased in 1927, Inayat Khan ranks 60. Before her are Ottavio Bottecchia, Vasily Polenov, Hermann Abert, Mikhail Artsybashev, Ion I. C. Brătianu, and Robert Fuchs. After her are Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Louise Catherine Breslau, Gustave Whitehead, Luigi Luzzatti, Hermann Muthesius, and Victoria Woodhull.

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In India

Among people born in India, Inayat Khan ranks 298 out of 1,861. Before her are Hyder Ali (1720), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Jaggi Vasudev (1957), Mir Osman Ali Khan (1886), Sarada Devi (1853), and M. S. Swaminathan (1925). After her are Nana Sahib (1824), Michael Radford (1946), Harilal Gandhi (1888), M. Karunanidhi (1924), Savitri (1936), and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Inayat Khan ranks 33. Before her are Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Guru Amar Das (1479), Zakir Naik (1965), Mahinda (-285), Swaminarayan (1781), and Tilopa (928). After her are Telesphore Toppo (1939), Abbé Faria (1756), Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri (1855), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863).

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