Amatullah
Armstrong Chishti
Amatullah
Armstrong Chishti trained as an art teacher and ran her own art
restoration business in Sydney, Australia. She also travelled
to Japan, Russia, England, France, Tahiti, Easter Island, Chile
and Brazil.
Amatullah’s spiritual quest began in the early I980s when
she undertook 5000 km bicycle journey from Paris, through France,
Corsica and Sardinia to Tunisia in North Africa She encountered
Islam during this journey and formally embraced Islam in 1984
in the Algerian Sahara Desert.
She subsequently entered the Sufi Path and was initiated into
the Sufi tariqa. The author then returned to university in Australia
and was awarded a Postgraduate degree in 1997. Her thesis was
entitled ‘The Artist Transformed: Sufi Views on the Development
of the Self and Art’. Between 1991 and 1995 she also wrote
and published four books on her personal experience within Sufism
and Islam.
A spiritual traveller connected to the Chishti Silsila, she left
Australia in 1998 and is now working with Mehmood Sabri to transmit
the Sufi message in Pakistan and abroad.
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