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Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Over the Past
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Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Over the Past Thousand Years Paperback - 1993

by Idries Shah

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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. In wit, construction, and piquancy, they compare with the finest tales of any culture. Idries Shah spent many years traveling through three continents to collect and compare oral versions of these remarkable stories. This anthology, presented in the dervish manner, contains stories drawn from the repertories of dervish masters over a period of more than a thousand years.

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  • Title Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi Masters Over the Past Thousand Years
  • Author Idries Shah
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, NY
  • Publication date 1993-10-01
  • ISBN 9780140193589 / 0140193588
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.73 x 5.04 x 0.63 in (19.63 x 12.80 x 1.60 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
    • Topical: New Age
  • Category New Age / Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Library of Congress subjects Sufism, Sufi parables
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93243515
  • Dewey Decimal Code 297.4

About the author

Idries Shah was an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote dozens of books on topics ranging from psychology to spiritualilty to travelogues to other anthropological studies. In his writings, Shah presented Sufism as a universal form of wisdom that predated Islam. Shah is known for The Sufis, The Commanding Self, The Subleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin, The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, Thinkers of the East, and Learning How to Learn.

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