THE STRANGEST TRIBE
The Englishman’s Handbook is the final volume of Idries Shah’s best-selling trilogy portraying that strangest of tribes, The English. Loaded with hilarious tales, it reveals the hidden strategies and qualities that help the English deal with foreigners and tips off...
Topsy Turvy English Insight
Idries Shah resumes his role as a friendly Afghan anthropologist in this rib-tickling sequel to his best-seller Darkest England. Loaded with delightful anecdotes, he shows how everyone, including the English themselves, misunderstand their island tribe. Non-linear and...
A Wild, Seemingly Trackless Roller Coaster Ride
Originally wanderers and warriors, the English have certainly changed with the times. They’ve used their Asian tales and traditions and English noggins plus anything and everything to succeed as businessmen, writers, diplomats and thinkers. This quintessentially...
Ancient Folly Eastern Wisdom
NASRUDIN’S upside down world is filled with fanatics, bigots, idiots, hypocrites, incompetents, innocents and thieves. It is a world of foible, folly and most importantly humour. It reveals the good sense and wisdom of Eastern cultures that we stereotype and assume we...
KNOWING HOW TO KNOW: Review
Knowing how to Know shines light on “eastern” traditional and “western” scientific concepts unfamiliar or misunderstood in our culture. Best read with an open mind, it’s loaded with clear thinking; common and uncommon sense. It presents a rare opportunity to observe...
THE WORLD OF THE SUFI: REVIEW
This beautiful new edition is a treasure-trove of learned essays about Sufis and their work, assembled by Idries Shah. It demystifies mysticism. It includes excerpts from the Arabian nights, jokes, works of the classical masters, Central Asian hypnotherapy, links to...
What Magic Is and Isn’t
For five years author Idries Shah examined obscure manuscripts in a dozen remote regions where magic persists. Originally published in 1957, most of the magical texts in this annotated and fully illustrated classic have never been published before; many in English for...
The Idries Shah Anthology Review
This beautiful anthology by Idries Shah’s daughter Saira is a masterful introduction to his vast body of work and a fresh perspective on Sufism. It contains chapters on the jokester sage Mulla Nasrudin, poetry, proverbs, teaching stories and more. Shah “argued that...
Review: The Commanding Self by Idries Shah
Contemplate much less the 'I shall progress,' than the 'I' stand in 'my way'. Reflections: Idries Shah Idries Shah’s The Commanding Self helped me recognize that what I think is my “normal” everyday self is actually a mix of primitive & conditioned reactions which...
Review: A Perfumed Scorpion by Idries Shah
“Whoever might perfume a scorpion will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband” Based on a series lectures delivered by Idries Shah at Universities in the United States, this lively book provides an insightful often shocking expression of the Sufi way for...
