First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magiccontains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into English for the first time, these works are annotated and fully illustrated.
The books title in itself signalled the fact that the bulk of material in this bibliographical study had never been published openly before.
Together with Oriental Magic which appeared in the preceding year, it provided a complete survey of fundamental magical literature, and thus a comprehensive reference system for psychologists, ethnologists and others interested in...
First published in 1957, The Secret Lore of Magiccontains within it a series of major source-books of magical arts. Many of them translated into Engli...
Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting forth on a journey from her home in the West, she is shipwrecked and cast ashore alone near Alexandria. Adopted by a family of weavers, and beginning to prosper in her new life, she is captured and made to work making masts. Undertaking a journey to sell the masts, her ship is wrecked off the coast of China. It is only here that Fatima finally realizes that what seemed to be disasters were really essential steps towards realizing her eventual...
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Fatima is a young woman whose life seems beset by one disaster after another. Setting for...
Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge from the Orient. Its central premise is the simple phrase: 'When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.' When the book first appeared in English thirty-five years ago, its printers questioned how it could be a book, as did reviewers, scholars, and people who paid money to buy it.
The Book of the Book is now in its seventh impression, and is studied at university level,...
Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever ...
Many of Idries Shah’s books are comprised of tales and teaching stories taken from both written and oral sources, which illustrate the instructional methods employed by Eastern wise men for thousands of years.T
he Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales, mostly unpublished – but also stories specially written by Shah to complete the book as a ‘course in non-linear thinking’.
As with all of his works, The Magic Monastery is rich in thought-provoking material, and can be...
Many of Idries Shah’s books are comprised of tales and teaching stories taken from both written and oral sources, which illustrate the instru...
