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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 297.4
EAN num: 9780140195132
ISBN number: 0140195130
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 302
Printing Date: September 01, 1996
Publishing house: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sale Popularity Level: 105691
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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In response to the many inquiries he has received about the Sufi tradition, leading Sufi expert Idries Shah presents a clarifying series of questions and answers that illustrates how traditional Sufi concepts can resolve our social, psychological, and spiritual problems. This is the ideal introduction to Sufi wisdom.
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this book was reccomended to me by a good freind and as he said it contains a new point of view of life and how we sould look as it.
a truely must have book
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Although it's been nearly 4 years since having read this book, I cannot get it out of my mind & heart. I am looking for the opportunity to network with people - mainly with regard to Idries Shah's works and possibly other related interests. (...)
Nathan
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How long are we going to delude ourselves with that kind of message ? From the very beginning of the book a doubtful story about rabbis let us in the tune with what we'll have to accept if we are to get the "master"'s approval. Of course each and every of our suffering is supposed to be a proof of our "foolishness". So if you follow this reasoning : every one who's suffering does deserve it. Killed children deserve it ? Raped women deserved it ? Humiliated, exploited, tortured men DESERVE IT ? The answer is yours.
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no need to repeat other reviewers...and no need to listen to the nay-sayers who cry charlatan...(?)(how odd)...(what would they think of bob dobbs?)...anyways, i suggest someone read and or take further the thesis whispered in the Octagon Press release (early 1980's) of The People of the Secret. one last note: sufism, like wicca, does no missionary work exactly: it works by deed, action. watch. then watch yourself. sufism transcends and weaves. it is wonderful within Islam. and it is just as bright if not brighter outside of the hadith-fundamentalist limitations of Islam...i dare suggest one can read Shah along with Hakim Bey/Peter L. Wilson as well as Starhawk...various, creative "Directorate" bubblings on the surface of current poly-culture.
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"If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it.
If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it.
If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why.
If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?" - The Late Idries Shah.
IMO, genuine seekers after Truth needn't be swayed by these (negative/positive) appeals to colorization of the Shah Corpus. Sometimes the glowing reviews of Shah's work are as completely off the mark as the dimming ones.
According to an old saying "Those who taste know." I'd really suggest you read this title to find out for yourself, and should you find the need, please reserve your judgements until you've managed to discuss your assesments with a living, authentic Sufi teacher.
As for my own assesment: This title kindly exemplifies how unexamined assumptions, and unbalanced interpretations, lead toward unhealthy attitudes and cognitive disabilities that so many people are actually "self-inflicting". And, as with many of Sufi writings, I discovered many topics making better sense at later times, when the notions "get unpacked" under different circumstances.
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