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...

DESTINATION MECCA REVIEW

In 1950 Idries Shah began a quest to observe and record some of the East’s most unusual people and places. His aristocratic Afghan family and openness to experience helped him access extraordinary people and places throughout the Middle East and Central Asia. Shah met...