 Bulent Rauf was the first president of the "Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society", which is dedicated to making known the work of the Sufi mystic Ibn Arabi, and encouraged translation and publication of his writings.Rauf led the society until his death in 1987.The 2012 documentary "In Search of Oil and Sand" tells the story of Bulent Rauf's creation of the amateur movie "Oil and Sand", together with members of the Egyptian royal family and their friends, in the weeks leading up to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.