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Idries Shah is widely regarded as one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, whose many bestselling books altered Occidental perceptions of Eastern society, folklore, and thought.
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Idries Shah
How can a mere melon be crowned a king? All too easily, it seems, in a city where basic common sense is in short supply. Its people are willing to…
For more than 1,000 years this story has entertained children, helped foster the ability to examine their own assumptions and think for themselves.Part of a rich body of literature from…
A beautifully illustrated children's book that tells a story from a traditional folk tale.
The Horrible Dib Dib is a colourful children's book, and a great story to engage young minds.
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The Tale of the Sands is a beautifully illustrated children's book - a story that will delight you. A wonderful tale to engage your children whilst encouraging creative thinking.
A beautifully illustrated children's book with an engaging story to encourage creative thinking.
When a poor fisherman discovers a priceless gold ring inside a fish, he can't believe his luck. He takes the ring to the king and is richly rewarded. His nosy…
When three deaf men get into an argument, they have to call on the first passer-by to ask for help in resolving their conflict. This happens to be a little…
After a Swim is the retelling of a traditional folk tale with beautiful illustrations bringing the story to life.
A young man, wanting to find out how to become rich and happy, sets off on a journey to find a wise man. Along the way, he encounters a fish…
Speak First and Lose is a children's book full of lovely illustrations. The story is perfect to engage young minds, and encourages creative thinking.
I sometimes wish that we would have some nicer food, and different things to eat, a wood-cutter's daughter tells her father one evening. Her simple request sparks a fantastical chain…
Shah Idries
Publicado por primera vez en 1957, Destino La Meca es tanto un ambicioso diario de viaje como tambien un trabajo de investigacion etnografica y cultural. Shah documenta un amplio rango…
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…
In this humorous tale, a man greedily and impatiently hopes to acquire the skills and senses of an animal but ends up limiting his abilities rather than enhancing them.
When a little boy wakes up with a dry throat, the adults around him try remedies that only complicate matters and make the condition worse, ignoring what young readers will…
Believing that he loves his beautiful pet bird too much to set it free, a wealthy merchant discovers that animals are sometimes better at learning by example than humans are.
In his writing about Sufism, Idries Shah did some revolutionary things. Critically, and almost alone, he said that it was possible to divorce the essence of Sufi philosophy from what…
Evenings with Idries Shah collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hafiz.
The Sufis have been using carefully constructed stories for teaching purposes for thousands of years. Though on the surface…
A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script…
The ‘perfuming of a scorpion’, referred to by the great Sufi teacher Bahaudin, symbolizes hypocrisy and self-deception: both in the individual and in institutions. In A Perfumed Scorpion, Idries Shah…
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…
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…
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…
Caravan of Dreams distills 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.
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…
The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study. The author begins with the…
First published in 1957, Destination Mecca was both an ambitious travel book and a work of ethnographic and cultural research.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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