(Bilingual English-Pashto edition) When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the people terrified of something that - just because they have not seen it before - they mistake for a terrible, dangerous animal. Using his own knowledge and by demonstration, the boy helps the villagers overcome their fears. This story is part of an oral tradition from the Middle East and Central Asia that is more than a thousand years old. In an entertaining way, it introduces children to an interesting aspect of human behavior and so enables them to recognize it in their daily lives. One of many tales from the body of Sufi literature collected by Idries Shah, this one is presented here as part of his series of books for young readers. This is the series' second book to be illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago, following the award-winning bestseller The Farmer's Wife.
Автор: Shah Idries Название: Wisdom of the Idiots ISBN: 1784799599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784799595 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3102.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Автор: Shah Idries Название: Thinkers of the East ISBN: 1784799157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784799151 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3447.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and 'parables in action' illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervish teachers.
Distilled from the teachings of more than one hundred sages in three continents, this material stresses the experimental rather than the theoretical - and it is that characteristic of Sufi study which provides its impact and vitality.
The emphasis of Thinkers of the East contrasts sharply with the Western concept of the East as a place of theory without practice, or thought without action.
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".
Автор: Shah Idries Название: Destination Mecca ISBN: 1784799300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784799304 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3447.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural research. Shah documents a wide range of fascinating journeys, from his quest for the Gold Mines of King Solomon on Sudan's Red Sea Coast, to encounters in desert caravanserais and sojourns with Mediterranean contraband smugglers, to his time as a personal guest of the elderly King Ibn Saud.
As readable now as it was more than fifty years ago, Destination Mecca acts as a beacon for young adventurers and for more sedate armchair travelers.
Автор: Shah Idries Название: Special Problems in the Study of Sufi Ideas (Pocket Edition) ISBN: 1784799483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784799489 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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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 and with a bibliography and notes. It knits together the available knowledge about Sufi thought and literature in its passage through many deforming influences, such as the development of cults, the misinterpretation by literalist scholars, and the fallacious comparisons of committed "specialists".
Автор: Shah Idries Название: The Man and the Fox: English-Arabic Edition ISBN: 1946270334 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781946270337 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1751.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A man tricks a young fox into believing he will give him a chicken. The man traps the fox, but, through ingenuity and perseverance, the fox escapes. This story inspires children to face life-challenges directly, and even make use of the obstacles in their paths to solve problems.
Автор: Shah Idries Название: The Elephant in the Dark ISBN: 1784791059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784791056 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 1446.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant. Taking hold of a different part - an ear, a leg, the tail - each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness, each of the men became convinced that the elephant was the object he himself had felt - a fan, a rope, a pillar - and so on. With this ancient fable, first described by the Sufi Master Jalaluddin Rumi, Idries Shah presents the Sufi perspective that Christianity and Islam stem from one, inner, origin. 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 religious differences, The Elephant in the Dark offers fresh thinking, hope, and the ability to look at what we think we know in new ways.
Автор: Shah Idries Название: The Sufis ISBN: 1784792713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784792718 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5171.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Sufis is the best introduction ever written to the philosophical and mystical school traditionally associated with the Islamic world.
Powerful, concise, and intensely thought-provoking, it sums up over a thousand years of Eastern thought - the product of some of the greatest minds humanity has ever produced - into a single work, presenting timeless ideas in a fresh and contemporary style.
When the book was originally published in 1964, it launched its author, Idries Shah, on to the international stage, attracting the attention of thinkers and writers such as J. D. Salinger, Doris Lessing, Ted Hughes and Robert Graves.
It introduced to the Western world concepts which have subsequently become commonly accepted, varying from the psychological importance of attention and humour, to the use of traditional tales as teaching instruments (what Shah termed 'teaching-stories'), and the historical debt owed by the West to the Middle East in matters scientific, literary and philosophical.
As a primer for the many dozens of Sufi books that Shah later produced, it is unsurpassed, offering a clear window onto a community whose system of thought and action has long concerned itself with the advancement of the whole of humankind, and whose ideas about individuals and society, their purpose and direction, need to be understood now more than ever before.
Автор: Shah, Idries Название: Learning how to learn ISBN: 1784791083 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784791087 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2585.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Sufi thought has been made easily available to the West thanks to the books Idries Shah.
But is merely wanting to learn about it enough?
What kind of preparation does a potential student of Sufism need to have to benefit from what Shah's writings offer?
Learning How To Learn is a crucial book for readers wishing to approach the Sufi Way. In it, Shah uses much of the language of Western psychology - still in its infancy in comparison with its much longer evolution in the East - to explain basic concepts for anyone trying to understand this philosophical system.
Built around Shah's answers to some of the many thousands of questions he received - from all manner of people and from all over the world - it shines a light on how traditional Sufi psychology can benefit both individuals and society in general.
Automatic thinking, and the many desires, hopes and fears which can pose as an aspiration towards personal development, are among the most important barriers to progress.
Автор: Shah Idries Название: Sufi Thought and Action ISBN: 1784790907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784790905 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2067.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Previously published only as separate essays, Sufi Thought and Action - assembled and introduced by Idries Shah - covers an extraordinary diversity of Sufi ideas and activities in many countries and cultures.
Included in the volume are papers on Sufi Principles and Learning Methods; Ritual, Initiation and Secrets in Sufi Circles; and Key Concepts in Sufi Understanding.
The volume stands as a clear and simple handbook to many facets of Sufi study and thought. Shah's introduction begins, 'The object of Sufi spiritual teaching can be expressed as: to help to refine the individual's consciousness so that it may reach the Radiances of Truth, from which one is cut off by ordinary activities of the world'.
Автор: Shah, Idries Название: Veiled gazelle ISBN: 1784791865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784791865 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1378.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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A 'Veiled Gazelle', as the great mystic Ibn Arabi explains in his Interpreter of Desires, is a subtlety, an organ of higher perception. Sufi experientialists refer to the activation of these centres of awareness as the awakening of real knowledge of Truth beyond form.
A Veiled Gazelle considers the symbolic and instrumental employment of its literature in Sufi studies. Seldom didactic, and never meant only as entertainment, such works are regarded as some of the world's greatest and most important writing.
Автор: Shah, Idries Название: Book of the book ISBN: 1784790788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784790783 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1895.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: '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 could be a book, as did reviewers, scholars, and people who paid money to buy it.
The Book of the Book is now in its seventh impression, and is studied at university level, appreciated by all for its simple brilliance.
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