Pir Netanel (Mu'in ad-Din) Miles-Yepez is the current head of the Inayati-Maimuni Order of Sufism.An artist, writer, philosopher, and scholar of comparative religion, Pir Netanel first studied History of Religions at Michigan State University and then Contemplative Religion at the Naropa Institute before pursuing traditional studies and training in both Sufism and Hasidism with his pir and rebbe, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, the famous pioneer in interfaith dialogue and comparative mysticism.Pir Netanel is the author of In the Teahouse of Experience: Nine Talks on the Path of Sufism (2020), the translator of My Love Stands Behind a Wall: A Translation of the Song of Songs and Other Poems (2015), co-author of two critically acclaimed commentaries on Hasidic spirituality, A Heart Afire: Stories and Teachings of the Early Hasidic Masters (2009) and A Hidden Light: Stories and Teachings of Early HaBaD and Bratzlav Hasidism (2011), and the editor of various works on Sufism and InterSpirituality.Currently, Pir Netanel lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Naropa University, and from which he leads the Inayati-Maimuni Order.
