Question
While touring America, this musicologist and mystic gave spiritual lectures to complement Ruth St. Denis’s “orientalist” routines. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this founder of the Ṣūfi Order International, who sought to engage a Western audience at the turn of the 20th century by eschewing the Islamic origins of his teachings.
ANSWER: ʿInāyat Khān [accept Inayati Order]
[10m] ʿInāyat Khān expounded an understanding of Ṣūfism based on this position, influenced by contemporaries in the Theosophical Society whom he met in New York. In Christianity, this position holds that all will be saved.
ANSWER: universalism [or universal salvation]
[10e] American Ṣūfists combine practices from world religions to perform this action “of Universal Peace.” Ṣūfi dervishes of the Mevlevi Order perform this action while reciting dhikr to meditate and wearing colorful skirts.
ANSWER: dances [or word forms like dancing; accept whirling or turning; accept Dances of Universal Peace]
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