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Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sufism
ISBN : 0863040802

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Using the powerful approach of classical teachers, Shah has crafted a contemporary teaching tool that blends a fastpaced look at today's world with the timeless teachings of the Sufis. The book brings into sharp focus the conditioned behavior and self-deception that are common in Western minds. Far more than a literary tool for breaking loose old mental habits, it is a blueprint for a process of self-development that precludes self-deceit. Truly a book among books, A Perfumed Scorption is treasured the world over for its clarity of wisdom and forcefulness of insight.

Author : Idries Shah
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Page : pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2017-06
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ISBN : 9781784790998

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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, human behavior and the learning process. Crammed with illustrative anecdotes from contemporary life, the book is nevertheless rooted in the teaching patterns of Rumi, Hafiz, Jami, and many other great Oriental sages. It deals with the need for and the path to knowledge and information.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Isf Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781784790967

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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.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 45,99 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sufism
ISBN : 0863040780

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Shah deals here with aspects of Sufi material, and the psychology of his readership, which underline the unique way in which Sufi studies should be approached.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1784791970

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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 "e;specialists"e;.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1784791911

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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.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 0900860367

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As our world continues to shrink, we are being brought headlong into often explosive contact with other cultures and religions. Islam continues to be for many a mysterious and misunderstood force, alien to our own cultural values. Yet, in more ways than expected, Christianity and Islam share common ground. For centuries, Sufi thinkers have been linked to both religions in certain important ideas. But, like the elephant in the dark in Jalaludin Rumi's classic fable, these ideas are not grasped in full by seizing parts of the whole and arguing for or against their supposed Christian or Islamic derivation. From a series of lectures given by Idries Shah at Geneva University, The Elephant in the Dark shifts focus to more fruitful ground, tracing documented episodes of cooperation and understanding between Christians and Moslems over the past 1,400 years.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Arabic fiction
ISBN : 0863040233

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Here, Nasrudin's anecdotes are seen to be parallel to the mind's working, designed to amuse the tea-house, but also intended for use on other levels.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Sufi meditations
ISBN : 0863040705

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A mixture of primitive and conditioned responses, common to everyone, which inhibits and distorts human progress and understanding.

Author : Idries Shah
Publisher : Octagon Press Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Sufi literature
ISBN : 0863040837

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"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. Its author, Idries Shah, is regarded as the most influential modern exponent of Sufi ideas. His many books on the subject seek to make some of the Eastern world's greatest teachings accessible to a Western audience. In this book, Shah begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject. He considers various attitudes to Sufi ideas, and evidence of their absorption into medieval Christianity, Hinduism, Jewish mysticism and modern philosophical teachings. The greater part of the book illuminates aspects of Sufi activity and practice relevant to the contemporary world." --