To an American Sufi Scholar:
Salaam, I was interested to hear your recent remarks on the state of American Sufism on a podcast sponsored by Ibrahim Jaffe's group. I also found your audio interview with a couple of the other authors of your book. I read your entry in the book as well as that of PhD candidate on the Sufi farm. I was rather delighted at first blush to find scholastic interest in what I had surmised was mostly a detour of well off the main highway of Western Sufism. To be perfectly honest, my interest in the progress of American Sufism only persists to the extent that I have relatives and former friends still involved. I personally find most of it rather hierarchical and irrelevant to my own personal path. Not to speak of the plague of amateurs infecting whatever original integrity it might have had. Not to criticize anyone else, but as you may see, I have run the gauntlet with it all and am done. Though I wish any sincere seeker of any stripe more success that I may have ...
