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The Sufis  
Author: Idries Shah
ISBN: 0385079664
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Stevie Smith, The Observer, November 1, 1964
"...vastness of learning and exposition that calls to our patience - and perhaps to our loss if it calls in vain."


Los Angeles Times
"Important historically and culturally."


Washington Post, May 1964
"A seminal book of the century."




The Sufis

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Sufis is the first authoritative, responsible book on Sufism, and as such it fills a colossal gap in Western documentation of Eastern subjects. Following a mystical teaching and a way of life that have had an enormous, though largely unrecognized, impact on both the East and the West for four thousand years, the Sufis believe not that theirs is a religion, but that it is religion. This belief includes conscious evolution, whereby through an effort of will man can originate new faculties - the faculties of mental telepathy and prophecy are examples - and Sufis therefore believe ultimately in the limitless perfectibility of man. To its followers, Sufism is the secret tradition behind all religious and philosophical systems. Robert Graves says in his Introduction, "The natural Sufi may be as common in the West as in the East, and may come dressed as a general, a merchant, a lawyer, a schoolmaster, a housewife, anything. To be 'in the world, but not of it,' free from ambition, greed, intellectual pride, blind obedience to custom, or awe of persons higher in rank; that is the Sufi ideal."

FROM THE CRITICS

Internet Book Watch

Idries Shah's The Sufis is a seminal, benchmark publication revealing a rich and varied compendium of Sufi thought and insights to both the dedicated student of Sufism and the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the contributions of Sufism to religion and spirituality. The "reader friendly" text is replete with examples and stories showcasing Sufi spiritual and psychological traditions and insights. Idries Shah's The Sufis is an essential, core title for any personal, academic, or community library world religion reference collections in general, and Sufi studies reading lists in particular.

     



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