- Dervishes, Folklore, Sufi Tales, Sufi parables
From the Blurb: Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, dervish tales are never presented merely on the level of 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 in the modern world that no technical or popular term exists to describe them.
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Warm, earnest, cool and open-ended.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Idries Shah
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- Octagon Press, Arkana, Octagon
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780900860478
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Idries Shah (Hindi: इदरीस शाह, Pashto: ادريس شاه, Urdu: ادریس شاه; 16 June 1924 – 23 November 1996), also known as Idris Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and by the pen name Arkon Daraul, was an Afghan author, thinker and teacher in the Sufi tradition. Shah wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.
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