Education and Publications
Khan received a master’s degree in religious studies, and recently completed a Ph.D in religion at Duke University.
He has published a number of instructional materials through Omega Publications and the Sufi Order International, as well as editing A Pearl in Wine, a book of essays about Hazrat Inayat Khan. He has written prefaces for the 1994 reprint of Henry Corbin’s The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism and the 1996 reprint of Gelpke’s translation of The Story of Layla and Majnun; an article entitled "Illuminative Presence" in Hart, Nelson, & Puhakka (Eds.) 2001 volume Transpersonal Knowing; and edits the biannual magazine Elixir. He has also translated several unpublished Indo-Persian Chishti poems and texts used in seminars and classes.
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