Tales of the Dervishes
OCLC 983317814 | | |
| Preceded by | The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin | |
|---|---|---|
Tales of the Dervishes by
Idries Shah Foundation
in October 2016.
Summary
Tales of the Dervishes is a collection of stories, parables, legends and fables gathered from classical Sufi texts and oral sources spanning a period from the 7th to the 20th centuries. An author's postscript to each story offers a brief account of its provenance, use and place in Sufi tradition.
Reception
The
Sunday Times called it "An astonishingly generous and liberating book ... strikingly appropriate for our time and situation ... a jewel flung in the market-place."[3]
Psychiatrist and author
Arthur Deikman, in his book The Observing Self, uses tales from this work to illustrate the role of intuition in the human makeup and the idea that mysticism is an extension of natural psychological faculties.[4]
Philosopher of science and physicist Henri Bortoft used teaching tales from Shah's corpus as analogies of the habits of mind which prevented people from grasping the scientific method of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Bortoft's The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way of Science includes stories from Tales of the Dervishes, The Exploits of the Incomparable Mullah Nasruddin and A Perfumed Scorpion.
References
- ^ Lessing, Doris; Elwell-Sutton, L. P. (1970-10-22). "Letter to the Editors by Doris Lessing, with a reply by L. P. Elwell-Sutton". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- ISBN 0-525-21195-0.
- ^ amazon.com
- ISBN 0-8070-2951-3.