Pir Zia Inayat Khan is the son and successor of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan. He is the president and spiritual leader of the Sufi Order International (established by Hazrat Inayat Khan in London, 1917) and founding director of the Suluk Academy, an esoteric school of the Sufi Order International located in upstate New York.

In addition to the interfaith mystical training he has received from his father, Pir Zia has studied Buddhism under the auspices of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Sufism in the classical Indian tradition of the Chishtiyya.