Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi al-Halveti is an author, translator and
Education
He studied Biological Sciences at Robert College, Istanbul. Art, Architecture, and Art History in the Studios of Bernard Leger and Andre Lhote in Paris. Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
And History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
He received a Masters in Fine Arts from Rutgers University.
Career
He served as a government official in Ankara, Honorary Consul of Turkey in Morocco and is the Sheikh of the Jerrahi-Halveti Order in America. A retired professor of art and art history from Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, he has exhibited widely in the United States and is also a Guggenheim fellowship In 1970 Bayrak met Muzaffer Ozak Ashki al-Jerrahi who became his teacher.
Bayrak is now a Sheikh of the Halveti-Jerrahi order residing near the Jerrahi Order of America mosque in Spring Valley, New New York
He has been spiritual guide of the Jerrahi Order of the Americas, (the primary Western branch of the Halveti-Jerrahi Order of Dervishes) since 1977.