Average Whiteman

A revealing memoir of a sixty-year journey from early post-war Britain through to the new millennium, and the huge social, political, technological, and religious upheavals that went with it.

Ian Abdal Latif Whiteman details his slow awakening to the extraordinary worlds he was to move through: from the Quakers of his upbringing to the hard-nosed architects he studied with in 1960s London, and his immersion in the chaos of the burgeoning music business.

His musical journey then took him, almost unwittingly, into a Moroccan Sufi order, and eventually on the pilgrimage to Mekka and Medina. Ian Abdal Latīf tries to examine his motives at each step of the way, recording his meetings with real holy men and not-so-holy men, and the upheavals that these encounters brought about.

In this illuminating and entertaining autobiography, he charts a course through these tumultuous waters, eventually finding some peace and gratitude for the lessons learnt.