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Panther/Granada, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, 1973. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 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, but their true function as Sufi teaching-stories is so little known in the modern world that no technical nor popular term exists to describe them. Yet for centuries, dervish masters have instructed their disciples by means of these tales, which are held to contain powers of increasing perception unknown to the ordinary man. Idries Shah spent many years travelling three continents to collect and compare oral versions of these remarkable stories. In one form or another, many of them have found their way into the literary traditions of both East and West. His anthology, presented in the dervish manner, contains stories drawn from the repertoires of dervish masters over a…
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- Title Tales of the Dervishes
- Author Idries Shah
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition th
- Pages 224
- Publisher Panther, London
- Date 1973
- ISBN 9780586039229
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Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching-stories of the Sufi masters over the past thousand years, selected from the Sufi classics, from oral tradition, from unpublished manuscripts and schools of Sufi teaching in many Countries
by Idries Shah
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