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Irving Karchmar is the son of Holocaust survivors who became a darvish of the Nimatullahi Sufi Order in 1992. He has been a writer, editor, publisher and poet for many years. He has an M.A. in Philosophy from DePaul University in Chicago, and has worked on such varied magazines as Hustler and the American Bar Association (ABA) Human Rights magazine. Between 1977 and 1985, he published Fantastic Films magazine. In 1986, Mr. Karchmar was on the staff that won the Trade Magazine Press Editors Award for work on the ABA’s Barrister magazine. In the same year, he published his first book, It Was Mostly You, a collection of poetry. He also writes the popular blog Darvish.
[edit] Master of the Jinn - A Sufi Novel
Mr Karchmar is the author of the Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel, a mystical adventure tale on the Sufi path of Love. The book has already been translated and published in Russia (January, 2001, where it is called Povelitelʹ dzhinnov), and in Turkey (April, 2007, where it is called Cinlerin Efendisi).[1] It has also been translated and published in Indonesian (February, 2008, where it is called Sang Raja Jin [2]). Other languages in which the book is now being translated include German, Spanish, Japanese, Urdu, Lithuanian, and Malayalam, the language of the Kerala State of India.
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