Laleh Bakhtiar is a member of the same Sufi order that is reputed to have supplied Gurdjieff with his enneagram connection. She lived in Iran for many years before the advent of the Ayatollah and for a few more after…there she met and studied with Seyyed Hossein Nasr, now professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. In 1964 Laleh converted to Islam. She has authored several books including God’s Will Be Done. Bruce Anderson came across her writings during his Sufi studies a...
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