by Aubrey Davis | Feb 21, 2020 | Uncategorised
Clear thinking, common sense and humour are not what we’ve come to expect from the Middle East and Central Asia. This glittering caravan of thought-provoking jokes, proverbs, table talk and tales delivers all this and more. It reveals what we share and can learn from...
by Aubrey Davis | Feb 15, 2020 | Uncategorised
Letters & Lectures is an intriguing little volume especially tailored for our culture. It’s peppered with incisive, often hilarious teaching-stories, and thought-provoking questions and answers. Sufis say that if we familiarize ourselves with the concepts, ideas...
by Aubrey Davis | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorised
This is as close as we can get to sitting down to a Sufi Dinner Meeting, a unique educational event that’s part performance and part interaction. Shocking, often funny, peppered with uncommon common sense, this far-reaching little book can actually prepare you to...
by Aubrey Davis | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorised
Idries Shah’s little book of Observations flashes with insight, clear thinking and humour. Each observation entices us to think, question and think again. Sufis hold that familiarizing ourselves with the concepts, ideas and thought patterns within their current...
by Aubrey Davis | Feb 7, 2020 | Uncategorised
As a child both the Bible and Mad Magazine shook me up. Both moved me to reflect on my life, my world and beyond. When I read Idries Shah’s The Sufis as an adult, I met an outlandish character that did something similar, maybe even more: The Incomparable Mulla...