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 Selected from the Sufi classics, from oral tradition, from unpublished manuscripts and schools of Sufi teaching in many countries by Idries Shah

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 Selected from the Sufi classics, from oral tradition, from unpublished manuscripts and schools of Sufi teaching in many countries

Idries Shah

221 pages • first pub 1967 (editions)

fiction religion reflective slow-paced
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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, yet their tr...

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