Footnotes

1 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four: The Memoirs of Claire Ray Harper (Khairunisa Inayat Khan) with poems, stories, and letters from the Inayat Khan Family. (New Lebanon, New York: Omega Publications, 2011). Letter from Ora Ray Baker to Inayat Khan, pg. 35. This book, compiled by David Ray Harper, includes Claire’s recollections and letters between Ora and Inayat, as well as poems written by Ora Ray Baker, and pictures of the family. Also included is David Ray Harper’s commentary, as well as information from other primary and secondary sources, and a section on Noor Inayat Khan primarily written by Tara Dundas-Harper, who is Claire’s granddaughter.

12 It is unclear as to how Inayat knew about these dreams, since in his autobiography it says that his mother only revealed these dreams to his grandmother in the "Khadija Bibi" chapter.

13 Khan, Inayat, with the assistance of Regina Miriam Bloch, Khatidja Young, Hanifa Sheaf, Sophia Green, Sharifa Goodenough, Kismet Stam, and Sakina Furnee, with regards to dictation and compiling. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Music chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm Autobiography made accessible by Richard Shelquist through Wahiduddin’s Web.

14 The forbidding of music traces to a hadith, or reported saying of Prophet Muhammad, that criticized those who allowed music. However, it should be noted that many hadith are not historically reliable according to historian Dr. Joshua Little, that there is also a hadith that is pro-music, and that the Qu’ran does not explicitly forbid music anywhere.

15 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Music chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

16 "Tansen" refers to a member of Mughal emperor Akbar’s court, one of the "nine jewels". Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Music chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

17 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Music chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

18 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Sufi chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

19 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Music chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

20 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 30-31.

21 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 22.

22 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Sufi chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

23 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Sufi chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

24 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Family Tree, Pg. 260-261.

25 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Sufi chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_11.htm

26 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Youth-Music chapter. https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Biography_10.htm

27 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s accounts included, pg. 5-9.

28 It is unclear as to whether or not Mary Baker Eddy was actually related to Ora. If she was, it’s possible that Ora visited her (We Rubies Four, pg. 30) and some of her spiritual views were influenced by having Eddy in the family and meeting her.

29 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 30.

30 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 30, pg. 28-29.

31 Srinivasan, Priya. "The Nautch women dancers of the 1880s: Corporeality, US Orientalism, and anti-Asian immigration laws", from an article in The Gazette published on Sunday, January 30, 1881, pg. 14.

32 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 28-30

33 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, America 1910-1912 chapter,  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_1.htm

34 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, America 1910-1912 chapter,  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_1.htm

35 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 30.

36 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 35.

37 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s accounts and David’s narration and commentary, pg. 7, 8-9, 30-31.

38 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Letter from Ora to Inayat, dated to February 1913, pg. 36.

39 Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy, pg. 162.

40 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 30-31.

41 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Ora to Inayat, date probably sometime in 1910 or 1911, pg. 31-32.

42 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Ora to Inayat, date probably sometime in 1910 or 1911, pg. 32. It is unclear who these "several people" were, whether they were her parents or relatives or others. It is implied later that her father joined in, but was not as relentless as Pierre in forbidding Inayat and Ora’s relationship.

43 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 32.

44 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Ora to Inayat, date probably sometime in 1912, pg. 33

45 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, 43rd letter from Ora to Inayat, date most likely December 1912, pg. 34.

46 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, 43d letter from Ora to Inayat, date most likely December 1912, pg. 34.

47 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 34.

48 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, Ora Ray’s 54th letter to Inayat, pg. 34.

49 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 35.

50 Sharda, meaning "goddess," was Inayat’s nickname for Ora throughout their relationship. His other nickname for her was Calleja Mari, the meaning unknown in this context. Ora’s nickname for Inayat was "Daya", meaning "compassion" in Sanskrit. Inayat was also called "Thea", is a Greek name meaning "gift of God." David Ray Harper, pg. 399.

51 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, Claire’s accounts, pg. 35-36.

52 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 36.

53 Since they were not in Inayat’s home, Ali made do with what he had and what was acceptable in European society regarding Indian Muslim wedding practices. Unfortunately, there is not much information available on what exactly these wedding practices were and what constituted acceptable versus unacceptable in Harper’s book.

54 Ahmed, Faruque. Bengali Settlement in Britain (Dhaka, The University Press Limited, 2020).  pg. 8, 14, 80-81 in the Kindle e-book.

55 Nasta, Susheila; Stadtler, Dr. Florian; Visram, Rozina. "Making Home in Britain", South Asians in Britain, British Library, https://www.bl.uk/asians-in-britain/articles/making-home-in-britain

56 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 36.

57 Srinivasan, Priya. "The Nautch women dancers of the 1880s: Corporeality, US Orientalism, and anti-Asian immigration laws",  pg. 14

58 Bald, Vivek. Bengali Harlem, pg. 59.

59 Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy, Pg. 43.

60 Leonard, Karen. Making Ethnic Choices, pg. 24.

61 San Francisco Call. 1910.

62 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, England 1912-1913, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_2.htm France 1913 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_3.htm

63 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 37.

64 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 37.

65 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, France 1913 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_3.htm

66 Although a "Princess Bartinov" is mentioned in We Rubies Four, it is unclear who she was; perhaps the name was misspelled.

67 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray, We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 37.

68 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 37. 

69 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 37-38.

70 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Russia 1913-1914 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_4.htm ; France 1913 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_3.htm

71 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Russia 1913-1914 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_4.htm

72 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, dated July 27, 1913. From the collection "Yours in the Infinite" transcribed handwritten letters from Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan to Murshida Rabia Ada Martin, 1911 to 1926 and "Sunrise in the West" by Murshid Wali Ali Meyer. (Foreword by Pir Shabda Kahn).  https://ruhaniat.org/RoG-Public/classes/cultivating-resilience/rabia-martin-letters-1.pdf

73 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, dated October 24, 1913. Inayat does not specify if it is his book on Sufism that was published in English and Russian in this letter, but based on the previous letter from July 27, I am going with the assumption that it was that book.

74 "Russian Empire". Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Russian-Empire

75 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Russia 1913-1914 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_4.htm

76 Claire often gives accounts of events before her birth. For some of them, it is obvious how she knew, such as her mother telling her about the meeting with Inayat. It is more unclear on how she knew about things like this event.

77 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 38.

78 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 38; Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, France 1914 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_5.htm

79 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 38.

80 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 38-39.

81 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, France 1914 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_5.htm

82 Claire’s account seemed to say the opposite, that they lived at Ladbroke Road first, and then moved to Addison Road. However, since Claire was not born until 1919, I went with Inayat’s account instead, since that seemed more reliable.

83 Merriam-Webster. "Purdah".  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purdah

84 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Raden Ayou Jodjana’s account, from a section attributed to Raden’s "memoirs" pg. 45.

85 Cohen, Matthew Isaac. "Chapter 10: Indonesian Performing Arts in the Netherlands, 1913-1944." In Recollecting Resonances: Indonesian-Dutch Musical Encounters, edited by Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts, 231-58. Brill, 2014. pg. 248. https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/edcoll/9789004258594/B9789004258594_011.pdf.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w76trp.13.

 Elisabeth Pop ended up marrying a Javanese dancer, Raden Mas Jodjana.

86 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, 44.

87 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Raden’s memoirs, pg. 45.

88 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated to February 8,1915.

89 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 47.

90 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated to February 8, 1915.

91 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated to October 20, 1915.

92 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, dated to February 9, 1916. (Postmarked to February 11, 1916.)

93 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, postmarked February 12, 1917.

94 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan. England 1914-1920 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_6.htm

95 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s accounts, pg. 46-49.

96 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated to a Wednesday in 1917.

97 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, England 1914-1920 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_6.htm

98 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, England 1914-1920 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_6.htm

99 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, England 1914-1920 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_6.htm

100 Letters from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated October 20, 1915; August 20, 1917; December 27, 1920, and more.

101 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated November 21, 1917; July 16, 1923, and more.

102 Rupp, Leila J. "Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women’s Movement". Women’s America: Refocusing the Past. Volume 2. (Oxford University Press, 2016). 393-404. Pg. 401-402.

103 "Khanqah", wikishia, https://en.wikishia.net/view/Khanqah

104 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, dated December 28, 1917.

105 It should be noted that one exception to this was Vilayat succeeding Inayat as leader of the Sufi Movement, even though Noor was older than him. However, it’s possible it didn’t go to Noor for reasons other than gender.

106 Nargis Jessie Dowland, Suluk Press: Classic and Contemporary Books on Sufism, https://sulukpress.com/author/nargis-jessie-dowland/

107 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, England 1914-1920 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_6.htm

108 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 50.

109 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Personal Account chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_16.htm

110 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account that was referencing something that Vilayat said, pg. 51.

111 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s accounts, pg. 52-53.

112 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 51-52.

113 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 53-56.

114 Rupp, Leila J. "Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women’s Movement", pg. 398.

115 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 56-57.

116 The Holy Qu’ran, Surah Baqarah and Surah An-Nisa.

117 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 57.

118 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letters from Noor to Ora and Inayat, pg. 57-58.

119 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 58.

120 In Surah 19 of the Qu’ran, it is specified that Mary was with God and the Angel Gabriel when giving birth to Jesus, with no specific man mentioned as being present at the birth. 

121 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, poem in a letter from Inayat to Ora, in 1922, pg. 61.

122 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, poem in letter from Inayat to Ora in 1923, pg. 62.

123 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Inayat to Ora in 1924, pg. 62-63.

124 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, poem in a letter from Inayat to Ora in 1922,  pg. 227

125 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, poem from Ora to Inayat written most likely in 1922, pg. 228.

126 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, America 1923 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_13.htm

127 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 63.

128 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, America 1923 chapter, https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_13.htm

129 "A Magnate and a Mystic Meet."The Detroit News, February 7, 1926.  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Reference_92.htm Made accessible by Richard Shelquist.

130 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin dated to December 27, 1920.

131 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Inayat to Ora dated to April 16, 1923, pg. 63.

132 Kahn, Shabda. "Foreword", "Yours in the Infinite", Letter Collection for Inayat Khan’s letters to Rabia Martin, pg. 1, https://ruhaniat.org/RoG-Public/classes/cultivating-resilience/rabia-martin-letters-1.pdf

133 Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Switzerland 1922 chapter. https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_12.htm

134 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Inayat to Ora dated to April 21, 1923, pg. 63.

135 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, letter from Inayat to Ora dated to April 28, 1923, pg. 63-64.

136 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, dated August 15, 1922.

137 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 77.

138 Hijrat Day: Inayat Khan departed from India, headed for America, on September 13, 1910:  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/mv_glossary.htm

139 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 25.

140 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 77.

141 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 77.

142 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 80.

143 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid, Personal Account chapter,  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_16.htm

144 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 79.

145 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 80.

146 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 80.

147 Khan, Inayat. Biography of Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, Personal Account chapter,  https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/bio/Autobiography_16.htm

148 Lystra, Karen. Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America. (Oxford University Press, 1989). pg. 155.

149 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 77-80.

150 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 81-82.

151 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, the last letter from Inayat to Ora included in We Rubies Four, dated to most likely September 1926, pg. 82.

152 Stam, Kismet Dorothea. Rays, The Hague: East-West Publications Fonds B.V., 1927 (written), pg. 143.

153 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 78.

154 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 80.

155 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 81.

156 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 82.

157 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 83.

158 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 86.

159 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 115.

160 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 103

161 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 104.

162 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 118.

163 Letter from Inayat Khan to Rabia Martin, dated November 7, 1926.

164 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 113-114.

165 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 142.

166 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 143.

167 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 144.

168 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 13.

169 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 82.

170 Earlier in We Rubies Four on pg. 22, Alauddin Khan is referred to as Dr. Pathan, so this may have been him.

171 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 84.

172 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 82-83.

173 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 83-84.

174 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 82.

175 Stam, Kismet. Rays, pg. 143.

176 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 82.

177 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 85.

178 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 83.

179 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 82.

180 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 83.

181 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 86-88.

182 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, "Shrine at the tomb of a revered Sufi" pg. 401.

183 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 89.

184 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 89.

185 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 90-93.

186 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 92.

187 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s accounts, pg. 97-101.

188 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, pg. 143-144.

189 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 119.

190 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, including Claire’s account, pg. 117-118.

191 Dundas-Harper, Tara; Harper, Claire Ray; Harper, David Ray. "The Secret Agent", We Rubies Four, pg. 152-184.

192 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 148.

193  "Biography", the music of Hidayat Inayat-Khan, https://www.hidayat-inayat-khan.com/Bio/index.html

194 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 123

195 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 124-126

196 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 193.

197 David Ray Harper’s exact birthdate is unknown.

198 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 195.

199 Shah, Nayan. Stranger Intimacy, pg. 52.

200 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Family Tree, pg. 260.

201 Harper, Claire Ray and Harper, David Ray. We Rubies Four, Claire’s account, pg. 189.