by Aubrey Davis | Apr 7, 2020 | Reviews, Uncategorised
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...
by Aubrey Davis | Apr 4, 2020 | Reviews
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...
by Aubrey Davis | Mar 1, 2020 | Reviews
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...
by Aubrey Davis | Sep 10, 2018 | Book News, Reviews
Review of Learning how to Learn: 100 Conversations with Idries Shah. These extraordinary conversations with ordinary people apply traditional psychology to the contemporary problems of humanity. It contains over 100 ancient & modern Sufi tales & extracts...
by Aubrey Davis | Sep 3, 2016 | Reviews
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...
by Aubrey Davis | Jun 15, 2016 | Reviews
“Pluck the cotton wool of heedlessness from the ear of awareness, so that the wisdom of dead men may reach your ear.” Saadi of Shiraz This unexpected, delicious, mind-stretching book is a basic study course by Idries Shah, the world’s most...