Bulent Rauf

Bulent Rauf ( born 1911 in Istanbul, † 1987 in Chisholme House, Roberton, in Hawick, Scotland ) was a Turkish- British mystic, spiritual teacher, translator and author. He was from 1945 until the early 1960s with Princess Faiza, sister of the Egyptian King Farouk I, married.

Bulent Rauf devoted himself to transfer the knowledge of the absolute unity ( tawhid ) of all existence for many years of his life. As a representative of Sufism ( Islamic mysticism ) along the line of the great Andalusian scholar Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi ( 1165-1240 ), he served as the long-time teacher of the British mystic and author Reshad Feild. In 1975 he founded with the help of the Beshara School of Esoteric Education in Scotland, to which since then, hundreds of students were taught the basics of spirituality.

Bulent Rauf was the first president of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, dedicated to the care and attendant of the works has committed this influential Sufis. Bulent Rauf's main literary work is the complete English translation of the four-volume of Ismail Hakki Bursevi into Turkish transmitted and annotated edition of Ibn Arabi's Fusus al - Hikam.

He died in 1987 in Chisholme House, Roberton, near Hawick, in Scotland.

Works (selection)

  • Addresses ISBN 0-904975-12-6
  • Addresses ISBN 0-904975-30-4 II
  • Fusus al - Hikam vol. I-IV ISBN 0-9509527-1-0
  • Introduction to The Wisdom of the Prophet ISBN 3-905272-71-7
  • Introduction to the hidden treasure ISBN 3-905272-72-5
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