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Title: Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching-Stories of the Sufi Masters over the Past Thousand Years by Idries Shah ISBN: 0-14-019358-8 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Stories as Tools
Comment: With each new projection of the Sufi impulse, the current exponent collects and organizes materials from the wealth accumulated during the over thousand years of works that are relavant the the current time and targeted people. It is cusomary for the potential students to study and become familiar with them so that the multiple embedded meanings may be later reveiled. This is the real, authentic, material, much of it available in the West for the first time. Since the point of these stories is function, a judgement based upon appearances, likes or dislikes, is of little value. It is far less important if a wrench is chrome or black than if it is properly designed and constructed so that it does its job.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Treasure Caravan of Humour and Wonder
Comment: I have just reread Idries Shah's Tales of the Dervishes. The 82 tales from Sufi teaching of the last thousand years include current material. Shah calls it "work material". These vivid and vital accounts are communications, really. They invite the reader to experience the challenge and mystery of Sufi lore and teaching. I was surprised to find that after ten years, I still remember nearly every tale: the feel of the words and drama as well as details of action. The characters, though often odd and unlikely also seem oddly familiar. Their escapades stimulate emotional as well as intellectual involvement. The outcomes seem at once impossible and inevitable. We are reading about ourselves here: the lucky time when we got it right and all the missed opportunities.
After each tale Shah gives historical notes and useful comments.
Excerpt.
STRIKE ON THIS SPOT
Dhun-Nun the Egyptian explained graphically in a parable how he extracted knowledge concealed in Pharaonic inscriptions.
There was a statue with pointing finger, upon which was inscribed: 'Strike on this spot for treasure.' Its origin was unknown, but generations of people had hammered the place marked by the sign. Because it was made of the hardest stone, little impression was made on it, and the meaning remained cryptic.
Dhun-Nun, wrapped in contemplation of the statue, one day exactly at midday observed that the shadow of the pointing finger, unnoticed for centuries, followed a line in the paving beneath the statue.
Marking the place he obtained the necessary instruments and prised up by chisel-blows the flagstone, which proved to be the trapdoor in the roof of a subterranean cave which contained strange articles of a workmanship which enabled him to deduce the science of their manufacture, long since lost and hence to acquire the treasures and those of a more formal kind which accompanied them.
Rating: 4
Summary: Jewels Of Spiritual Insight
Comment: Idries Shah presents a selection of stories from hundreds of years worth of Sufi literature and tradition. The stories are short, entertaining, and easily read, but also challenging since they are not so easily understood in many instances. Nevertheless, there are certainly jewels of spiritual insight to be gleaned from this book, regardless of any puzzlement one might experience in regard to its many obscurities. The patient reader will find that some stories which seem terribly obscure to begin with will, at some later reading, become perfectly obvious as to their relevance.
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Title: Wisdom of the Idiots by Idries Shah ISBN: 0863040462 Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited Pub. Date: 01 June, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin / The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah ISBN: 0863040403 Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah ISBN: 014019357X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Sufis by I. Shah ISBN: 0385079664 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 05 February, 1971 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Hundred Tales of Wisdon : Life, Teachings and Miracles of Jalaludin Rumi from Aflaki's Munaqib by Jalaludin Rumi, Shamsuddin Ahmad Aflaki, Idries Shah ISBN: 0863040497 Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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