Lilian Silburn

Irina Tweedie (20 April 1907, Russia – 23 August 1999) was a Russian-British Sufi and teacher of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiya order. Born as Irina Tamara Karpova (Ирина Тамара Ка́рпов) in Russia, she spent her early life in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France and England after her family fled the Bolscheviks. She studied in Vienna and Paris, and after World War II married her second husband, an English Navy officer surnamed Tweedie. Due to her second husband's premature death in 1954, she went …