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Idries Shah
Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah’s Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with…
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Many countries claim Nasrudin as a native, although few have gone so far as Turkey in exhibiting a ‘grave’ of the wisest fool who ever lived, and holding an annual…
Based on university lectures at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of California, San Francisco, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study deals with many of the…
A remarkable conspectus of philosophical contacts between East and West through the ages. This important monograph constitutes the whole text of Idries Shah’s Seminar at Sussex University, fully annotated, indexed…
Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah'sReflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed…
How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale…
Mulla Nasrudin, the wise fool of Eastern folklore, holds a special place in Sufi studies. The Sufis, who believe that deep intuition is the only real guide to knowledge, use…
Presents a collection of traditional Sufi literature which offers spiritual guidance to individuals searching for greater understanding, clearer thinking, and a deeper meaning to their lives.
The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales, mostly unpublished - but also stories specially written by Shah to complete the book as…
In Idries Shah’s Wisdom of the Idiots, the ‘idiots’ are Sufis, called this because their wisdom penetrates to a depth which renders it inaccessible to the merely intelligent or academically-knowledgeable…
The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read by children, by scientists and scholars, and by followers of philosophy.
First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural research.
Anteriormente publicados solo como ensayos separados, Pensamiento y accion Sufi – recopilado y prologado por Idries Shah – cubre una extraordinaria diversidad de ideas y actividades Sufis en muchos paises…
‘When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.’ When the book first appeared in English thirty-five years ago, its printers questioned how it…
Kara Kush is the definitive story of freedom fighters. It is a story of patriotism-in-action, mobilized and fuelled not by a mass-media propaganda machine, or the charisma of a single…
Special Illumination is a term used by the great poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi to stress the importance of humor in metaphysical experience. Of it, Idries Shah says, Rumi directly…
A treasure house of teaching materials, assembled in the Sufi manner. Seeker after Truth contains both traditional tales and stories gleaned from contemporary sources, and snippets of table talk, discussions…
The book’s author, Idries Shah, says ‘Without direct experience of such teaching, or at least a direct recording of it, I cannot see how Eastern thought can ever be understood’.
Special Illumination is a term used by the great poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi to stress the importance of humor in metaphysical experience.
Cuando aparecio por primera vez en 1964, Los Sufis fue acogido como la obra decisiva sobre la materia. Rico en su alcance, explica por primera vez a un publico occidental…
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First published in 1964, Idries Shah’s definitive work. The Sufis , completely overturned Western misconceptions of Sufism, revealing a great spiritual and psychological tradition encompassing many of the world’s greatest…
A selection of excerpts from Sufi masters clarifying the philosophy of Sufism.
How can you develop spiritual understanding?
This sequel to Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self turns that question on its head.
It claims that we’re bombarded by a…
According to the Sufis, human faculties, although perceptive, are limited: like a radio set, which can receive only certain electromagnetic waves and not other parts of this band. The inability…
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A fox’s ingenuity and perseverance enable it to escape from a trap set by a man. This story can inspire children to face challenges and to overcome obstacles in their…
Oriental Magic is recognized as a brilliant study of how, what and why people think, in territories extending from North Africa to Japan. Profusely illustrated, the book is the product…
‘Perhaps the best introduction to the body of Shah’s work, the most comprehensively informative. And one is immediately forced to use one’s mind in a new way.’- The New…
Based on Shah’s celebrated Geneva University lectures, this book dazzles with the breadth of its scholarship, and the profound depth of its message. In a world riven by cultural and…
Caravan of Dreams distils the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the world’s leading experts in Oriental philosophy.
Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore.
El camino del Sufi presenta una incomparable variedad de materiales ensenantes y escritos clasicos provenientes de las principales Ordenes Sufis, los cuales conforman un curso basico de estudio Sufi.