Idries Shah: 40 books

Book cover of Los Sufis
by Idries Shah
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 20, 2018

Cuando apareció 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 público occidental las tradiciones y la filosofía de los Sufis de un modo claro y didáctico. Durante las cinco décadas posteriores a su...
Book cover of Destination Mecca
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016

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...
Book cover of Tales of the Dervishes
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016

Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known...
Book cover of The Way of the Sufi
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015

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 outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject. He considers various attitudes...
Book cover of Oriental Magic
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

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 of years of research and field-work in a dozen different cultural regions.Its scholarly accuracy and genuine contribution...
Book cover of El libro del libro
by Idries Shah
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 1, 2017

Utilizado durante más de setecientos años como cuento-enseñante, El libro del libro es uno de los textos más asombrosos y fascinantes que jamás hayan emergido de Oriente. Su premisa central es la simple frase: 'Cuando te des cuenta de la diferencia entre el contenedor y el contenido, tendrás...
Book cover of La sabiduría de los idiotas
by Idries Shah
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2019

En La sabiduría de los idiotas, los 'idiotas' son los Sufis, llamados asà­ debido a que su sabiduría penetra a una profundidad que la transforma en inaccesible para el conocedor meramente acadà©mico o inteligente. Los cuentos-ejercicios de los Sufis son herramientas preparadas para propà³sitos...
Book cover of Magia oriental
by Idries Shah
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 29, 2019

El libro Magia oriental es reconocido como un brillante estudio acerca de cà³mo, quà© y por quà© piensa la gente, en territorios que se extienden desde el norte de àfrica hasta Japà³n. Profusamente ilustrado, el libro es el resultado de aà±os de investigacià³n y trabajo de campo...
Book cover of The Book of the Book
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

The Book of the BookUsed 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...
Book cover of The Secret Lore of Magic
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016

First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magic contains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated. The book's title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this...
Book cover of Les soufis
by Idries Shah
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Cet ouvrage monumental infirme complètement les opinions erronées répandues en Occident sur le soufisme. Il lève le voile sur une grande tradition spirituelle et psychologique qui a nourri nombre de grands penseurs et poètes : Saadi, Attar, Rumi, Ibn El-Arabi, El-Ghazali, Omar Khayyam, François...
Book cover of Les Plaisanteries de l'incroyable Mulla Nasrudin
by Idries Shah
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2016

Ce second volume des aventures de Nasrudin nous entraîne dans les situations les plus inattendues et les plus drôles. À sa manière abrupte et bondissante mais aussi de façon très subtile, Nasrudin enseigne une philosophie de la vie quotidienne, imprégnée d'un sens aigu de la réalité et d'une...
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