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The Commanding Self
Idries ShahThis book, while complete in itself as an anthology of hitherto unpublished work, serves to illustrate and amplify Idries Shah's preceding twenty and more books on the Sufi Way.
The Boy Without a Name: English-Pashto Edition
Idries ShahThis is one of a series of illustrated books for children by Idries Shah, whose collections of narratives and Teaching-Stories have captivated the hearts and minds of people of all ages and from all walks of life.
The Word: Welsh Witchcraft, The Grail of Immortality And The ...
William Wheeler IIIJACK. BRACELIN. (IDRES. SHAH?) Jack Bracelin is the ... (In Crafting the Art of Magic, Kelly claims that this book was actually written by Idries Shah, and simply published under Bracelin's name. Kelly offers no evidence of this) Bracelin ...
A Perfumed Scorpion
Idries ShahThe book brings into sharp focus the conditioned behavior and self-deception that are common in Western minds.
Zillah Decisions, Lower Provinces (Bengal)
Bengal (India). Zillah CourtsN ittanund Shah, Nehal Shah, Ramsunker Shah, Kaleekinker Shah, and Kasheenath Shah, Appellants. versus K Rajchunder Fotahdar and Ramnarain Fotahdar, mahajuns, and Kewal Kishen Shah, gomashta, Repondents. ' RESPONDENTS ...
The Sufis
Idries ShahThis work offers coverage of the spiritual and psychological tradition of Sufism. It shows that Sufism is not the preserve of ecstatic religionists, but has a contribution to make to human culture and philosophy.
Reflections
Idries ShahThis pocket-size collection of sayings and stories from real life, and from the author's observations of our mental processes, is a perfect gift book. It's contemporary, fun to read-like a splash of icewater for the mind.
The Way of the Sufi
Idries ShahSufism, the mystical aspect of Islam, has had a lasting effect on the literature of that religion. It's teachings aim at perfecting the human mind. This is an anthology of Sufi writings which form an introduction to this body of thought.
Seeker After Truth: A Handbook
Idries ShahThis book, which describes itself as a handbook, is food for many different kinds of study - a book unlike anything our own society has produced until recently, in its richness, its unexpectedness, its capacity to shock us into seeing ...
Oriental Magic
Idries ShahBehind the distortions and grotesqueries of magical practices, could there be clues to processes worthy of our objective consideration? First published nearly 40 years ago, Oriental Magic is still the definitive work on the subject.
Wisdom of the Idiots
Idries ShahThe exercise-stories of the Sufis are tools prepared for a specific purpose. On this level the movements of the characters in a story portray psychological processes, and the story becomes a working blueprint of those processes.
Thinkers of the East: Studies in Experientialism
Idries ShahDrawn from teachings of more than a hundred sages from three continents, Thinkers of the East is a book of enormous breadth and depth, the impact and vitality of which is characteristic of the Sufi emphasis on experience rather than theory.
Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism
PreviewBracelin, Gerald Gardner. Hutton ... This book was officially written by Jack Bracelin, actually (in the main) written by Idries Shah, and inevitably based on Gardner's own memories for its whole substance up until the mid1950s. See Hutton ...
Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
India. Parliament. Rajya SabhaAmrish Shah 34.68 7. Jackie Shroff 27.64 8. New Excelsior Theatre Ltd. 34.32 9. Jairam Reddy 21.83 10. Dada Kondke 15.52 11. Savitaben D. Shah 35.50 12. Sushilaben P. Shah 32.38 13. Nazhat Khan 18.04 14. Nadiadwala Grand Son's ...
Who's who Among Asian Americans
Amy L. UnterburgerShin-Min Song. Xueshu Sreenivasan. Katepalli Raju Marr. William Wei-Yi Mathiprakasam. 1 Mathur. Achint P. Mehra ... William T. Shah, Mirza Mohammed Shah, Pravin M. Shah, Ramesh Keshavlal Shen, Shan-Fu Sheth, Ketanki Shih, Chiang ...
The Life and Times of the Shah
Gholam Reza AfkhamiGholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals—including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition—to depict the unfolding of the shah's life ...
History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and ...
John E. WoodsSeeking a World Empire: Nadir Shah in Timor's Path Ernest Tucker United States Naval Academy Nadir Shah (1736-1747) first rose to prominence in the late 1720s as "TahmaspquIT" ("servant of Tahmasb") Khan: a title Shah Tahmasb II had ...
The Shah
Abbas MilaniThe Shah's was a life filled with contradiction—as a social reformer he built schools, increased equality for women, and greatly reduced the power of the Shia clergy.
BMJ: British Medical Journal
More editionsOur study has its own problems, as discussed in our paper and in the letters by Sunil Shah and Leonaura Rhodes and by Valerie Seagroatt However, the literature search was more extensive than Medline alone, as suggested by Shah and ...
The Heritage of Sufism: Late classical Persianate Sufism ...
Leonard LewisohnTHE AUTHOR OF MADHUMALATI, MlR SAYYID MANJHAN RAJGIRl The natural hostility of the Mughal historians towards these upstart Afghans perhaps explains the paucity of information available on the subject of Manjhan, the author of Madhumalati. The only independent reference to him occurs in the Afsdn-e Shahan of Muhammad KabTr, in the section dealing with Islam Shah, the son of Sher Shah. He writes: "Wherever he [Islam Shah] happened to be, he kept himself ...
Cazadores de Cuerpos/The Body Hunters: La Experimentacion ...
Sonia ShahSonia Shah describe con precisión estos atropellos, y se atreve a poner nombre y apellido a los responsables.
A King's Book of Kings: The Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp
Stuart Cary WelchReproduces pages from a sixteenth-century Islamic manuscript which details early Iranian history and contains miniatures by leading Safavid painters
US Arms Policies Towards the Shah's Iran
Stephen McGlincheyThis book reconstructs and explains the arms relationship that successive U.S. administrations developed with the Shah of Iran between 1950 and 1979.
US Arms Policies Towards the Shah's Iran
Stephen McGlinchey... Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, The International Politics of thePersian Gulf: ACultural Genealogy (Oxford: Routledge, 2006),pp. 11¥21; and Roham Alvandi, aNixon, Kissinger, andthe Shah«, pp. 356¥64. 52 Saunders toKissinger, 19 October1970.
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More editions... Prabhakaran Sanjay Randeria Dhanapal Ronak Shah Sathish KTheni SCGupta MN Cooper KSSankar Pratish Motwane Bharat Shetty V-Damodar Bhat PA Balasubramanyan Lalit Kumar Neville Bulsara Nehal Shah Rakesh Goyal Nirmal S.
The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years
Sonia ShahIn The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer this question, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives.
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
B. HopkinsSee Ernest Tucker, 'Nadir Shah and the Ja'fari Madhhab Reconsidered', Iranian Studies. For an idea of Nadir's relationship with those chiefs, see Peter Avery, ' Nadir Shah and the Afsharid Legacy', in The Cambridge History of Iran: From ...
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