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 her major works, and additionally includes a number of never-before-published pieces. The introduction elucidates the authors unique literary contribution to the elaboration of Sufism in the West. To know Noors mind and heart, there is no better place to turn than to her literary creations. Noors 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 Noors principal works together under a single cover. The pages that follow present and contextualise the greater part of Noors oeuvre, including several hitherto unpublished pieces.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. Noors 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 incantatory wanderings, a seamless continuity links Noors ethical and spiritual vision with that of her father, the musician and mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan.