Idries Shah: 40 books

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 and teachings, letters and lectures by Idries Shah. Taken together, it constitutes a handbook of materials designed to provoke a different kind of thought.

Traditionally known as The Hundred Tales of Wisdom, this collection comprises excerpts from the life, teachings and miracles of the Sufi teacher Jalaluddin Rumi, together with certain important stories from his works. As well as being part of the bedrock of classical Persian literature, these...

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 directs attention to both the perfume and the scorpion - the overlay and the reality - in psychology,...

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. Idries Shah assembled this collection of Nasrudin's trials and tribulations from ancient manuscripts and oral literature, from...

When it first appeared in 1964, The Sufis was welcomed as the decisive work on the subject of Sufi Thought. Rich in scope, author Idries Shah explained clearly the traditions and philosophy of the Sufis to a Western audience for the first time.In the five decades since its release, the book has been...

El camino del Sufi presenta una incomparable variedad de materiales enseñantes y escritos clásicos provenientes de las principales Órdenes Sufis, los cuales conforman un curso básico de estudio Sufi. El autor comienza con los aspectos externos de la enseñanza que probablemente resulten...

El Mulá Nasrudín (el maestro), figura popular internacional, de origen medieval y de eterno atractivo, es el héroe (o antihéroe) de un repertorio de situaciones que invitan a la hilaridad, concebidas para ilustrar las enseñanzas sufíes. Las ocurrencias del increíble Mulá Nasrudín contiene...

Caravana de sueños condensa la esencia del pensamiento oriental a través de un banquete de cuentos, dichos, poemas y alegorías, recopilado por uno de los más destacados expertos en filosofía oriental. Idries Shah construye una imagen completa de una consciencia única, relacionando la mitología...

When it first appeared in 1964, The Sufis was welcomed as the decisive work on the subject of Sufi Thought. Rich in scope, author Idries Shah explained clearly the traditions and philosophy of the Sufis to a Western audience for the first time.In the five decades since its release, the book has been...

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 Nasrudin Festival. He is the greatest, most intriguing, character of folklore found in any Eastern land. Versions of his back-to-front...

Les histoires que nous conte ici Idries Shah - qu'il nous donne à entendre et à vivre - illustrent les modes de pensée et d'action des sages soufis. Pour autant, ce ne sont pas des contes didactiques. L'art du conteur opère: nous entrons dans l'histoire, nous comprenons bientôt que c'est de nous...

Ce troisième volume des aventures de Nasrudin ne le cède en rien - en subtilité et drôlerie - aux Exploits et aux Plaisanteries. Bien qu'enracinée dans le terreau moyen-oriental, la sagesse que recèlent ces histoires aux dimensions multiples est universelle. Idiot accompli, sage ingénu, rusé...

Idries Shah a rassemblé dans Contes Derviches les plus belles histoires de la tradition soufie. Ce livre nous emmène dans les caravansérails et les chaikhanas (maisons de thé) du Moyen-Orient et d'Asie centrale où les derviches, « chercheurs de vérité », se rencontrent et échangent leurs...

Dans un des plus beaux contes des Mille et une nuits, Marouf le Cordonnier se prend à rêver d'une caravane fabuleuse dont les richesses lui sont destinées. Sans ressources et presque sans amis en pays étranger, il imagine et décrit les trésors sans prix qui font route vers lui. Ce "conte" aurait...