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	IDRIES SHAH
		From the start, the young Shah was at home in both East and West: educated, as his father before him, by private tutors in Europe and the Middle East, and through wide-ranging travel and personal encounters -- the series of journeys, in fact, that characterise Sufi education and development.
		Shah's knowledge and activities took place in so many different areas of specialisation and in so many countries, that friends and sometimes even family were aware of what he was doing purely on a 'need to know' basis.
		Idries Shah was indeed a sensible man. He was also, it is said, the Sufi Teacher of the Age.
	www.idriesshah.com (1392 words)

	IDRIES SHAH
		IDRIES SHAH, who has died aged 72, was Grand Sheikh of the Sufis, and through his books and example the greatest living propagator of their spiritual insights.
		Shah could be angry in the face of negativity or wilful foolishness, but more usually was warm and approachable, whether by the celebrated or the humble.
		Shah remarked that "God is Love" can be words scrawled on a placard carried by an old tramp in the street, or the revelation of the greatest truth, with a thousand changes of meaning in between, and it is the thousand changes that are the experience of the learner.
	www.geocities.com /metaco8nitron/shah3.html (1207 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Commanding Self: Books: Idries Shah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Idries Shah is simply a voice (among countless other voices), and of a tradition (among so many other authentic traditions) that have tried to make one cognizant of one's commanding self -- in it's unparalleled complexity, machiavelli, dominating dynamic -- and how to co-exist with it objectively.
		Shah hadn't sufficient self awareness to realize how he was coming across, or perhaps he had some oh so suble rationalization for why he was allowed, nay, even required, to be so thoroughly and continually foul tempered.
		Shah once pointed out that the oft-repeated supposedly Chinese saying, "the journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step" fails to note directly that if one does not know in which direction to step (or, for that matter, why to undertake a journey in the first place) one can readily go badly astray.
	www.amazon.ca /Commanding-Self-Idries-Shah/dp/0863040667 (1739 words)

	The Sufis and Idries Shah
		It is not easy to sum up the life of as multifaceted a man as Idries Shah, who died last winter, and particularly not his literary achievements which covered such a range of subjects and disciplines, amounting to a kind of map of Sufi living, learning and thinking.
		Idries Shah was born in 1924 in North India, of an ancient family that holds a special place in the community of the Sufis.
		Idries Shah's father, the Sirdar Iqbal Ali Shah, was a diplomat and worked in cultural organisations designed to bridge the gaps between east and west.
	www.serendipity.li /more/lessing_shah.htm (3246 words)

	The Sufi Tradition, interview with Idries Shah
		Shah: If I say it will elude the scientists, it will annoy the people who are able to get enormous grants for research into ESP. But I think, yes, a great deal more can be discovered providing the scientists are prepared to be good scientists.
		Shah: I am sure that the best way is not to start a cult, but to introduce a body of literary material that should interest people enough to establish the Sufi phenomenon as viable.
		Shah: What I really want, in case anybody is listening, is for the products of the last 50 years of psychological research to be studied by the public, by everybody, so that the findings become part of their way of thinking.
	www.katinkahesselink.net /sufi/sufi-shah.html (5755 words)

	Idries Shah
		As the urgency of our global situation becomes apparent, more and more readers are turning to the books of Afghan writer Idries Shah (1924-1996) as a way to train new capacities and new ways of thinking.
		Shah has been described as “the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world.” Shah’s lively, contemporary books have sold over 15 million copies in 12 languages worldwide.
		The instrumental function of Shah’s work is now well established among people from all walks of life.
	ishk.net /sufis/shah.html (200 words)

	THE MYSTERIOUS EAST - The New York Review of Books
		To mention Idries Shah's brother's version of Omar Khayyam without relevance to the books under review is perplexing enough; but that he concerns himself with trying to establish a negative about the MS is astonishing.
		Idries Shah, as usual, reveals his singular unoriginality of mind by failing even to produce a retort of his own, falling back instead on the warmed-up (and misquoted) wit of another.
		I am disinclined to credit the Shah brothers with hypnotic powers—though anyone who listened, as I did, to the BBC radio program referred to by Doris Lessing might have been forgiven for suspecting something of the kind; I am still amused and amazed when I recall the sycophantic manner of Idries Shah's interlocutors.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/10797 (1327 words)

	ISHK History Idries Shah
		IDRIES SHAH WAS born in 1924 into the respected Afghan family, the Sadaat of Paghman.
		Shah’s books have been translated into more than 15 languages, which sell in their millions, and are considered to be some of the most important literature to be published during the twentieth century.
		One extraordinary aspect of Shah’s work is the wide spectrum of readers his books attract: they are read and studied by psychologists and novelists, physicists and by social workers, by actors, lawyers and housewives.
	www.ishkbooks.com /ishk_history_shah.html (320 words)

	ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Storyteller's Daughter by Saira Shah
		These are but the starting points of Saira Shah's memoir, by turns inevitably exotic and unavoidably heartbreaking, in which she explores her family's history in and out of Afghanistan.
		As the daughter of the Sufi fabulist Idries Shah, primed by a lifetime of listening to her father's stories, she eagerly sought out, from the mouths of Afghan refugees in Pakistan, the rich and living myths that still sustain this battered culture of warriors.
		Shah discusses the historical differences between the Islamic tradition in which she was raised and the teachings of the orthodox Muslim world [p.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/storytellers_daughter1.asp (1157 words)

	The Gurdjieff Journal Articles
		Idries Shah is one of these (great Sufi Masters), and from his birth has been prepared for the specific task of establishing this teaching here in the West.
		Idries Shah Sayed happens to be in the senior male line of descent from the prophet Mohammed, and to have inherited the secret mysteries from the Caliphs, his ancestors.
		Idries Shah's pretension to be a Sayyid (in common incidentally with a million or more putative descendants of Muhammad's younger grandson Husain) may be conceded grosso modo, without its conferring on him the spiritual authority he implies.
	www.gurdjieff-legacy.org /40articles/neosufism.htm (1350 words)

	Idries Shah
		Shah was a sayed, which is a descendant of Mohammed and the Islamic version of the master race, I guess.
		Idries Shah is about the smartest man I ever read.
		Idries Shah was kind of hard on other Sufis.
	www.blaketashi.com /idries_shah.htm (767 words)

	Amazon.ca: Way of the Sufi: Books: Idries Shah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In his timeless introduction, Idries Shah presents selections of lyric poems, fantastic tales, humorous anecdotes, and insightful maxims straight from the writings of revered Sufi masters.
		Shah's book "The Sufis." The rest of the book consists of snippets taken from the writings of the great Sufi masters, mostly of the Medieval period.
		Shah can be compared to Socrates in his benevolent probing into our cherished but unexamined patterns of thought and action.
	www.amazon.ca /Way-Sufi-Idries-Shah/dp/0863040837 (1303 words)

	Knights Templar \| Baphomet: The Abufhimat Theory \| www.templarhistory.com
		Shah was born in 1920 and in his lifetime was the author of over 35 books twenty on Sufism alone.
		In addition to being a well know author, Idries Shah was also Director of Studies for the Institute of Cultural Research.
		Additionally Shah suggests the Sufi terminology "ras el-fahmat" which translates to "head of knowledge." This provides an interesting thought connecting the concept of wisdom with the head.
	www.templarhistory.com /shah.html (376 words)

	Grand Sheikh of the Sufis
		Idries Shah and I are sitting in the village pub near his country estate south of
		Shah himself, it is a subtle blend of East and West.
		Shah’s father served as an unofficial adviser to several Middle Eastern countries, and often carried out diplomatic missions between East and West.
	www.idriesshah.info /GrandSheikh.htm (4674 words)

	Open Mind Designers - Sufi books, new age books and audio tapes on traditional psychologies and alternative thinking (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All are told with Idries Shah's distinctive wit and grace and the author's own commentary notes.
		Shah's Observations is a fine example of the lucidity and humor prevalent throughout Idries Shah's more than thirty published works.
		No ordinary collection of tales, this anthology was the result of extensive research that lead Shah to conclude that there is a certain basic fund of human fictions, which recur again and again throughout the world and never seem to lose their compelling attraction.
	www.theopenminddesigners.com /shah/shah.html (2584 words)

	On the death of Idries Shah
		Doris Lessing writes: I met Idries Shah because of The Sufis, which seemed to me the most surprising book I had read, and yet it was as if I had been waiting to read just that book all my life.
		Shah remarked that "God is Love" can be words scrawled on a placard carried by an old tramp in the street, or the revelation of the greatest truth, with a thousand changes of meaning in between, and it is the thousand changes that are the experience of the learner.
		In one aspect of his life he was a bridge between cultures, like his father the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, at home in the East and the West.
	lessing.redmood.com /on.html (504 words)

	Idries Shah
		Shah Idries, et al / Hardcover / Published 1984
		Idries Shah, Rose Mary Santiago (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1998
		Idries Shah, Julie Freeman (Illustrator) / Hardcover / Published 1998
	www.rosanna.com /books/idries_shah.htm (336 words)

	Welcome to 50Classics.com
		Shah's many books expanded awareness of Sufi philosophy and writings in the West, and The Way of Sufi is perhaps his best known work.
		There are several possible origins of the word 'Sufi' from Arabic, Greek and Hebrew, but Shah asserts that its etymology is not tied to a particular language but created simply for the sound of the letters, S U F, and their effect on the brain.
		Shah notes that 'eight hundred years before Pavlov', Ghazali highlighted the question of conditioning or indoctrination, which was the enemy of genuine spirituality.
	www.butler-bowdon.com /the-way-of-the-sufi.html (1374 words)

	Relinfo: Idries Shah
		Sayyid Idries Shah ist 1924 in Sardhana/Indien in einer hochgeachteten afghanischen Familie (sie soll vom Mohammed abstammen) geboren.
		In den sechziger Jahren begann Idries Shah Bücher über den Sufismus zu schreiben, die in England großen Erfolg hatten.
		Idries Shah soll in zwei sufischen Orden als Sheikh (Ehrentitel eines islam.
	www.relinfo.ch /shah/info.html (213 words)

	››› buch.de - bücher - Die Sufis. Diederichs Gelbe Reihe - Idries Shah
		Der renommierte Sufismus-Kenner Idries Shah präsentiert und kommentiert in diesem Klassiker die wichtigsten Texte der großen Sufi-Meister.
		Idries Shah, geboren 1924 in Indien, gestorben 1996 in London, stammte aus einer alten afghanischen Familie, deren Ursprung bis über die Familie des Propheten Muhammad zurück reicht.
		Bei Diederichs sind von Idries Shah weitere Titel erschienen, darunter Karawane der Träume, und zuletzt Tiefe Einsicht.
	www.buch.de /buch/13714/580_die_sufis__diederichs_gelbe_reihe.html (172 words)

	Shah Summaries
		This paper explains that, in the Shah Faisal Mosque (or Masjid), one of the most beautiful mosques in the world, the Qiblah wall is very beautifully d...
		Taj Mahal Begun by Shah Jahan The Mausoleum of TAj Mahal standing by Jumna River outside AAGra in India is reporded as the fienest Example of Islamic...
		The legend has it, that Shah Jehan decided to construct another Taj Mahal in fl marble on the other side of the river Yamuna and to connect the two...
	www.shvoong.com /tags/shah (286 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sufis: Books: Idries Shah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Idries Shah's The Sufis, first published in 1964, is the seminal work of this famous Afghan author and a first-of-its-kind modern statement on Sufism.
		Thus, Idries Shah takes us on a developmental journey through the past fourteen hundred years, from the angle of how, when, and where the Sufic stream was in operation in the East and West.
		The author, Idries Shah, was a self-proclaimed "Sufi Master" and falsely claimed numerous titles for himself.
	www.amazon.com /Sufis-Idries-Shah/dp/0385079664 (2026 words)

	AbeBooks: Suchergebnisse - Idries Shah und The Sufis
		Botschaft der Derwische, Weisheit der Magier.; Autoren: Idries Shah; Verlag: Diederichs Eugen.
		MwSt-Nachweis.; Titel:Die Sufis Botschaft der Derwische, Weisheit der Magier; Autoren: Idries Shah; Übersetzung: Jochen Eggert, Stephan Schumacher; Verlag: Hugendubel Heinrich GmbH.
		Idries Shah entdeckt eine der großen verborgenen Traditionen der Kulturgeschichte neu.
	www.abebooks.de /search/sortby/3/an/Idries+Shah+/tn/+The+Sufis (950 words)

	Octagon Press Authors - Idries Shah
		IDRIES SHAH WAS born in 1924 into the respected Afghan family, the Sadaat of Paghman.
		Shah’s twenty nine books, translated into more than 15 languages, which sell in their millions, are considered to be some of the most important literature to be published during the twentieth century.
		One extraordinary aspect of Shah’s work is the wide spectrum of readers his books attract: they are read and studied by psychologists and novelists, physicists and by social workers, by actors, lawyers and housewives.
	www.octagonpress.com /authors/idriesshah.htm (173 words)

	The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin (Idries Shah)
		The jokes are, as Idries Shah notes, "perfectly designed models for isolating and holding distortions of the mind which so often pass for reasonable behavior".
		The key to the philosophic significance of the Nasrudin jokes is given in Idries Shah's book "The Sufis" and a complete system of mystical training based upon them was described in the Hibbert Journal.
		In these delightful volumes, Shah not only gives the Mulla a proper vehicle for our times, he proves that the centuries-old stories and quips of Nasrudin are still some of the funniest jokes in the world.
	islamicbookstore.com /b8026.html (410 words)

	Sayed Idries Shah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sayed Idries Shah is one of those authors I read the most these days.
		Idries Shah was born in Afghanistan in 1924 and is reported to have one of the longest-tracing lineages in the world, going through Mohammed and down to the xth century.
		In short, it can be said that Idries Shah stresses the evolution of consciousness and the belief that individual liberation can come about only if people understand the link between their own fates and the fate of society.
	www.kvarteret.no /~raymondk/shah (311 words)

	Idries Shah on LibraryThing \| Catalog your books online
		Also known as: Shah Idries, Sayed Idries Shah, I.
		Shah, Idries, Sayed, Shah, Idris Shah, Indries Shah, Indries, Sayed Shah...
		There are 41 conversations about Idries Shah's books.
	www.librarything.com /author/shahidries (365 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Idries Shah (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Idries Shah (born 1924 died 1996) was an author and lyricist[?] in the sufist tradition.
		Idries Shah greatly extended the western knowledge of the sufi teachings.
		Complete list of books by Idries Shah (http://www.sufis.org/shahworks)
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/id/Idries_Shah (156 words)

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