Robert Darr

Robert Darr: Born in Tahiti (1951- ) also know as Robert Abdul Hayy Darr. Author of several books on Islamic mysticism (Sufism). American citizen. Resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, USA .He is translator and interpreter of classic Islamic mystical texts. Member of the Naqshbandi Order (Afghan branch). He travelled and lived in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the 1980s. He was introduced to Sufism in the 1970s through the works of Idries Shah. By 1985 he left the Shah groups and began working in the Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and making overland trips inside of Afhanistan. In the ensuing years, he befriended a number of Sufis in the region including Khalilullah Khalili. Darr spent the next couple of decades studying traditional Sufism along with specialized disciplines such as abjad (Islamic numerology). He has been for almost two decades the student of the Afghan Sufi, Raz Mohammed Zaray. For a decade, he studied miniature painting with Afghanistan's great miniaturist, Homayon Etemadi (died 2007).

His books:

"THE SPY OF THE HEART". Fons Vitae. 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1929148622

"The Garden of Mystery. The Gulshani-i raz of Mahmud Shabistari". Archetype. 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1901383225

"CLARIFICATIONS. Mystical Poetry of Rumi" . Royal Impressions. Sausalito. 2002.

"QUATRAINS Khalili". The Afghan Cultural Foundation Assistance. Sausalito. 1989. REFERENCES

[http://www.spyoftheheart.com/review.php] Review by Leonard Lewisohn (Ph.D.,B.A). Lecturer, Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Persian and Sufi Literaure.University of Exeter.

[http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Robert-Abdul-Hayy-Darr/dp/1929148623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219070877&sr=8-1] Amazon Page.

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