Robert Darr

Robert Darr (born 1951, Orange, California), also known as Robert Abdul Hayy Darr, is the author of several books on Sufism. A U.S. citizen and resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Darr is a translator and interpreter of classic Islamic mystical texts. 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 Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan and making overland trips inside Afghanistan. There 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). For a decade, he studied miniature painting with Afghanistan's great miniaturist, Homayon Etemadi (died 2007). For almost two decades he has been the student of the Afghan Sufi, Raz Mohammed Zaray.

Books

• THE SPY OF THE HEART. Fons Vitae. 2007. ISBN 978-1929148622
• The Garden of Mystery. The Gulshani-i raz of Mahmud Shabistari. Archetype. 2007. ISBN 978-1901383225
• CLARIFICATIONS. Mystical Poetry of Rumi . Real Impressions. Sausalito. 2002.
• QUATRAINS Khalili. The Afghan Cultural Assistance Foundation. Sausalito. 1989.

References

• [1] Review by Leonard Lewisohn (Ph.D.,B.A). Lecturer, Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Persian and Sufi Literaure. University of Exeter.
• [2] Amazon Page.

External links

• [3] Robert Darr's link.