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Idries Shah on sufism

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The Sufis

What is Sufism? The book follows the Sufi principle of "scatter" in answering this unanswerable question. It deliberately shies away from offering an ordered definition. Instead, it throws out ideas. Like fragments of light on dust particles, they reveal the shape of something intangible.

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Idries Shah
2018
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Caravan of Dreams

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.

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Idries Shah
2018
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The Way of the Sufi

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.

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Idries Shah
2019
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Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching-Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years

Dervish tales are more than fable, legend, or folklore. For centuries dervish masters have instructed their disciples by means of these teaching stories, which are said to increase perception and knowledge and provide a better understanding of man and the world.

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Idries Shah
1993
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An Advanced Psychology of the East Part 1 of 2

A lecture delivered by Idries Shah before a live audience in 1977 In this lecture Shah talks about the correct approach the student needs to take in order to learn, as well as the characteristics that aid the student in his study of Sufism and those which are detrimental to it.

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Idries Shah
2012
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Knowing How to Know

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 spiritual impulse all the time. So it's more useful to look at the reasons we don't learn.

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Idries Shah
2020
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Learning How to Learn

This book is condensed from three million words of answers Idries Shah gave to questions from his readers. It’s the closest thing he left to a practical manual to his Sufi teachings. He explains what Sufism is and is not.

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Idries Shah
2020
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Idries Shah Questions and Answers (Subtítulos Castellano)

Idries Shah answers questions sent to him from all over the world, 1973.

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Idries Shah
2012
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The Book of the Book

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.

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Idries Shah
2016
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Obituary: Idries Shah

The man who devoted the best years of his life to bringing to the West a better understanding of Sufism (a mystical movement of Islam, with the belief that deep intuition is the only real guide to knowledge).

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Robert Cecil
1996
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