Writing in the British newspaper The Observer, Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing described it as 'a key book'.

The New York Times also applauded the book, saying it was 'like a door opening where one least expects it'. Fler bcker av Idries Shah The Sufis Wisdom of the Idiots Learning How to Learn Knowing How to Know Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching Stories of the Sufi. The book was well received on publication, with the BBC's The Critics programme declaring it an 'outstanding book of the year'. In the East, he also said that Sufism had influenced certain aspects of Hinduism as well as Zen Buddhism. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Clever Boy and the Terrible Danger., Shah, Idries at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products. Continuing a theme from the previous book, Shah argued that Sufism had greatly influenced Western civilisation over the centuries, but that this had largely gone unrecognised, citing examples such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, the William Tell legend, the former United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjoeld and the works of Sir Richard Burton amongst others. In addition there were a number of Sufi teaching stories as well as question-and-answer sessions with Sufi teachers. Summary Īs in The Sufis, Shah gave potted biographies of some of the best known Sufis of the ages, while adding brief descriptions of four of the major Sufi orders, or Tariqas: the Chisti Order, Qadiri Order, Suhrawardi Order and Naqshbandi Order. As such, The Way of the Sufi can be read as part of a whole course of study.

Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. Whereas The Sufis eschewed academic norms such as footnotes and an index, The Way of the Sufi provided a full section of notes and a bibliography at the end of its first chapter, entitled 'The Study of Sufism in the West'. The Way of the Sufi was the best-selling follow-up introduction to Sufism by the writer Idries Shah after the publication of his first book on the subject, The Sufis. The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

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