In an Eastern Rose Garden—Part I
w/ Pir Zia Inayat Khan
Sundays, October 5th – November 9th, 2025 via Zoom
2:00–3:15 pm ET / 8:00–9:15 pm CET

In an Eastern Rose Garden turns us toward the ideal of freedom. 

All beings pursue freedom since freedom is an essential quality of the soul. Too often, however, one person’s purported freedom is achieved at the expense of that of someone else. A truer freedom arises from the realization of interconnectedness.

Over the next year, through two six-part series, one in the fall followed by one in the spring, we will explore Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings on peace and creativity, freedom and friendship, aristocracy and democracy, the inner and the outer. The reconciliation of each of these pairs of seeming contraries lies the realization of the purpose for which we were created.

Each class is an hour and 15 minutes long and includes teachings followed by spiritual practices to continue throughout the week ahead.

Our companion text for this class is the Sufi Message Volume Series book number seven—In an Eastern Rose Garden, now available from Suluk Press.

Please join us in real time, via Zoom, the day of each class, or watch the video after. Pre-registration is required to receive the video. This is the first part of a two-part series, with continuation in Spring 2026.

REGISTRATION DETAILS

General tuition is $60 ($10/class) with a limited income rate of $48 ($8/class) for the six-part series.

As part of your registration, you will receive the course video which will be posted within 24 hours of each class via Dropbox. The course is designed to be attended in its entirety. If you begin with us after the course starts, video from past classes will be made available to you.

If you have questions about the In an Eastern Rose Garden series, please  reach out to us at astana@inayatiyya.org.

BIOGRAPHY

Pir Zia Inayat Khan, PhD, is a scholar of religion and teacher of Sufism in the universalist Sufi lineage of his grandfather, Hazrat Inayat Khan. Pir Zia is president of the Inayatiyya and founder of Sulūk Academy, a school of Sufi contemplative study and practice. He is the author of the forthcoming Tears from the Mother of the Sun with the visual artist Amruta Patel (Inner Traditions, Feb 2026); Immortality: A Traveler’s Guide; Mingled Waters: Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions; Saracen Chivalry: Counsels on Valor, Generosity and the Mystical Quest; and the editor and compiler of Dream Flowers: The Collected Works of Noor Inayat Khan, for which he also wrote the critical introduction. Pir Zia divides his time between Richmond, Virginia and Suresnes, France. inayatiyya.org

In An Eastern Rose Garden
by Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan
Teachings on freedom and human wholeness.

“This seventh volume of the Centennial Edition of the Sufi Message series takes as its leading idea that of freedom. All beings pursue freedom since freedom is an essential quality of the soul. Too often, however, one person’s ostensible freedom is achieved at the expense of that of someone else. A truer freedom arises from the realization of interconnectedness.

In the end, In an Eastern Rose Garden is a book about human wholeness. Peace and creativity, freedom and friendship, aristocracy and democracy, the inner and the outer—in the reconciliation of each of these pairs of seeming contraries lies the realization of the purpose for which we were created.” —From the introduction by Pir Zia Inayat Khan

Available for pre-order now from Suluk Press. Shipping mid-September.