Intro
Samuel L. Lewis seems to be a fake Sufi Muslim. Not only was he a Murshid, but he also was ordained as Zen Buddhist master. He was born in roughly 1896. His father was Jacob Lewis (an executive in the Levi Strauss Company and his mother was Harriet Rothschild (of the famous international banking family)(See the Daily Independent Journal of Tue, Jan 19, 1971 ·Page 4).
Samuel L. Lewis was also known as Sufi Sam or Murshid Sam.
In 1910, Zia Inayat Khan was born in western India in 1882 to a family of mystically inclined
professional musicians travelled to San Francisco (see “A Hybrid Sufi Order at the Crossroads of Modernity” [PhD diss., Duke University, 2006], 226. and Bowen, “A History of Conversion to Islam in the United States, Volume 1, White American Muslims before 1975”, page 215).
In 1911 (Apr-16), the Royal Musicians gave a presentation at San Francisco’s Vedanta Society temple (See Bowen) and in attendance was the person who would become Khan’s first and most important American disciple: Ada Martin. Born Ada Ginsberg in San Francisco in 1871 (See Bowen) Ada’s parents—both of whom were Russian Jewish immigrants—were of the intellectual type; her father was an artist and her mother, who came from a family of rabbis and Jewish mystics, a scholar. Ada herself, by her late teens, had begun studying religion, philosophy, and mysticism, and after marrying and bearing a daughter, the young mother also dedicated much of her free time to philanthropic activities. In the early 1900s, Ada’s interest in religion and mysticism intensified; she read more, sought out spiritual teachers, and, according to Samuel Lewis, her most well known follower, even joined Edouard Blitz’s Martinist Order, presumably by way of the Groupe Indépendent d’Etudes Esotériques (g.i.e.e.).
In 1912 (Jan), Rabia attempted to fulfill her duty of spreading the Sufism she had been taught by Khan. Before she had even left San Francisco for New York in January 1912, Rabia was already connecting with Theosophists, lecturing at a local lodge in December 1911 (See Bowen). The following summer, after Khan had left for London, Rabia formally established the Sufic Order at 1504 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco, complete with a ‘School of Philosophy’ that held lectures every Wednesday and Friday (See Bowen). According to Samuel Lewis, Rabia was, at the time, teaching her students an understanding of Sufism that integrated knowledge gained from her study of comparative religions and Martinism (See Bowen). By December, she was calling the group’s meeting place a ‘Sufic Temple’ (later, ‘Sufi Temple’), promoting it as a “school of religious philosophy, mental and moral culture, [and] elementary and advanced instruction in metaphysics,” and offering, in addition to the weekly lecture, a “devotional service” (See Bowen). Although it is not quite clear what took place at the devotional service, and it may very well have been a time for practicing dhikr prayers, the name suggests that it may have been a more church-like activity, similar to what would take place in Khan’s Church of All. By 1915, however, ‘devotional service’ no longer appeared in advertisements for the Sufi Temple, although the temple itself was to stay active for several more years (See Bowen). Rabia remained active as well, struggling to build and maintain a stable Sufi community and occasionally making appearances at interfaith events, such as at the Congress of Religious
Philosophies, an auxiliary to the 1915 World’s Fair that was being held in San Francisco (See Bowen). In 1918, she expanded the American activities of the movement by establishing in the town of Fairfax, California a communal home known as Kaaba Allah (See Bowen). and in the following year, she gained what was to be her most loyal follower for the next two decades, Samuel Lewis (later known as Sufi Sam or Murshid Sam)(See Bowen). Ella May Garber was around too.
In 1971 (Jan-19), on Jan-15-1971, Samuel L. Lewis died at a San Francisco hospital after falling down the stairs. Samuel L. Lewis also had a home in Novato (See the Daily Independent Journal of Tue, Jan 19, 1971 ·Page 4). Samuel L. Lewis is listed as a Sufi pioneer in the USA.
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Daily Independent Journal of Tue, Jan 19, 1971 ·Page 4
Jan 19, 1971, page 4 – Daily Independent Journal at Newspapers.com™
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In 1971 (Jan-19), on Jan-15-1971, Samuel L. Lewis (his Moslem name was Ahmed Murad Chisti) died at a San Francisco hospital after falling down the stairs. Samuel L. Lewis also had a home in Novato (See the Daily Independent Journal of Tue, Jan 19, 1971 ·Page 4).
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Links and Related Essay’s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_L._Lewis
SAMUEL LEWIS, HEAD OF A MOSLEM SECT, 74 – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/06/archives/samuel-lewis-ileal.html
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