The Sovereign Soul: Sufism--A Path for Today
Phillip Gowins was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1945.  He has been a cabinetmaker since 1980. In 1979 he met Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan and shortly thereafter was inducted into the Sufi Order of the West.  A teacher in that order, he runs a Sufi Center at his home in Yonkers, New York, with his wife, Majida, who is also a teacher. Her daughter, and their grandchildren, live with them,