A guidebook to the Sufi spiritual path. Second edition adds new material and contributions.
Caravan of Souls is a guidebook to the Sufi path of Hazrat Inayat Khan, a spiritual philosophy of love, harmony, and beauty. It is a foundational text for all murids, as well as anyone interested in learning about the history of the Inayatiyya. Within these pages the reader will find the essential teachings and methods of the order and movement he founded, as well as an inspiring array of sayings, poems, songs, prayers, stories, and biographical portraits.

"By initiation, it is meant that a Sufi prepares himself here on earth to be capable of appreciating the spiritual souls, and unites with them in the kinship of initiation on the Path, which may keep him connected with the caravan which is continually journeying toward the goal." -- Hazrat Inayat Khan

The contents include historic texts by Hazrat Inayat Khan, Nargis Dowland, Huzurnawaz baron von Pallandt, and Sophia Saintsbury-Green, as well as contributions by Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Shrabani Basu, Dr. Sitara Jironet, Edgar Austin Mitchell, and Shahbaz Alex Dijk. The new edition incorporates new sayings, updated prayers and Silsila, meditations, and songs, as well as new chapters on Shaikh al-Mashaik Mahmood Khan, the Nooriyya and the Mahashaikhan.