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Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties Paperback - 2011
by Robert Irwin
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In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric topics under a holy fool possessed of telepathic powers. A series of meditations on the nature of mystical experience run through this memoir. But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.
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- Title Memoirs of a Dervish: Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties
- Author Robert Irwin
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ips - Profile Books
- Publication date 2011-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781861979919 / 1861979916
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (21.08 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
- Category Biography / Autobiography
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Social life and customs -, Sufism
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011514837
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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