Mevlevi

Sufism Documentary Filming at Season of the Rose

In July, documentary filmmaker, Chuck Davis, came to the Season of the Rose, the Inayati Order's Sufi summer school, in Portland, Oregon, to film the first scenes of a new documentary on universalist Sufism in America.

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A major focus of filming was an evening of traditional Qawwali with Sukhawat Ali Khan, at which Mevlevi semazen, Aziz Isaiah Abbatiello, turned. Davis also filmed sessions with Sufi teachers, Taj Inayat and Pir Zia Inayat-Khan.