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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

AN ADVANCED PSYCHOLOGY OF THE EAST
A lecture delivered before a live audience, plus teaching-stories and narratives selected from two of Shah's works: The Way of the Sufi and The Magic Monastery

Idries Shah, selections read by The London College of Storytellers

ADVENTURES IN AFGHANISTAN
Louis Palmer

AFGHAN CARAVAN
Assembled by Safia Shah
Collected by Idries Shah

AFGHANISTAN OF THE AFGHANS
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

ALONE IN ARABIAN NIGHTS
Sirdar Ikbar Ali Shah

AMONG THE DERVISHES
Omar Michael Burke

THE AMAZING BRAIN
Robert Ornstein, Illustrated By David Macaulay

APRENDER A APRENDER
Idries Shah

ARABIAN FAIRY TALES
Retold by Amina Shah

THE ASSEMBLIES OF AL-HARIRI
Retold by Amina Shah

AWAKENING YOUNG MINDS
Perspectives on Education

Compiled by Denise D. Nessel

THE AXEMAKER'S GIFT
A Double-Edged History of Human Culture

Robert Ornstein and James Burke

BATTLE FOR THE MIND
William Sargant

BEYOND BELIEF
The Secret Gospel of Thomas

Elaine Pagels

THE BOOK OF ECSTASY
The Halnama of Arifi
Translated by R. S. Greenshields

THE BOOK OF THE BOOK
Idries Shah

THE BOY WITHOUT A NAME
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Mona Caron

BRAVE NEW BRAIN
Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Human Genome

Nancy C. Andreasen

BURNOUT: THE COST OF CARING
Christina Maslach

EL BUSCADOR DE LA VERDAD
Idries Shah

EL CAMINO DEL SUFI
Idries Shah

CARAVAN OF DREAMS
Idries Shah

THE CLEVER BOY AND THE TERRIBLE, DANGEROUS ANIMAL
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago

THE CLEVER BOY AND THE TERRIBLE, DANGEROUS ANIMAL/EL MUCHACHITO LISTO Y EL TERRIBLE Y PELIGROSO ANIMAL
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago
Trans. Rita Wirkala

THE COMMANDING SELF
Idries Shah

CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Essays on diverse cultures now and in the past

Edited by Robert Cecil and David Wade

CULTURAL RESEARCH
Papers by and for The Institute for Cultural Research on Regional Cultures and Culture-Mixing

Edited by Tahir Shah

DARKEST ENGLAND
Idries Shah

DARWIN AND FACIAL EXPRESSION
A Century of Research in Review

Paul Ekman (Ed.)

THE DERMIS PROBE
Idries Shah

THE DERVISHES OF TURKEY
Lucy M.J. Garnett
with a foreword by Omar M. Burke

DOCUMENTS ON CONTEMPORARY DERVISH COMMUNITIES
A Symposium

compiled by Roy Weaver Davidson

THE ELEPHANT IN THE DARK
Christianity, Islam and The Sufis

Idries Shah

EMOTIONS REVEALED
Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life

Paul Ekman

THE ENGLISHMAN'S HANDBOOK
Idries Shah

ESCAPE FROM CENTRAL ASIA
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

EVENINGS WITH IDRIES SHAH
Sufi Discussions

Collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hanafy

THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
The Origins of the Way We Think

Robert Ornstein

THE EXECUTIVE BRAIN
Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind

Elkhonon Goldberg, foreword by Oliver Sacks

THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE MULLA NASRUDIN AND THE SUBTLETIES OF THE INIMITABLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

LA EXPLORACIÓN DÉRMICA
Idries Shah

THE FARMER'S WIFE
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago

THE FARMER'S WIFE/LA ESPOSA DEL GRANJERO
Idries Shah, Illustrated By Rose Mary Santiago

FATIMA THE SPINNER AND THE TENT
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Natasha Delmar

FIRST AMONG SUFIS
Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya

Widad El Sakkakini
Introduction by Doris Lessing

A FOOL OF GOD
Mystical Verse of Baba Tahir
Persian Text, with translation by Edward Heron-Allen

FOUR SUFI CLASSICS
Jami's Salaman and Absal translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Al-Ghazzali's The Niche for Lights translated by W.H.T. Gairdner
Hakim Sanai's The Way of the Seeker and Jami's The Abode of Spring
Translated and abridged by Da

GENDER AND DISCOURSE
Deborah Tannen

A GLOSSARY OF SUFI TECHNICAL TERMS
Compiled by Abd al-Razzaq al-Qashani
Translated from the Arabic by Nabil Safwat
Revised and edited by David Pendlebury
Includes facsimile of original Arabic text.

THE GNOSTIC DISCOVERIES
The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library

Marvin Meyer

THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS OF JESUS
The Definitive Collection of Mystical Gospels and Secret Books About Jesus of Nazareth

Marvin Meyer

THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS
Elaine Pagels

THE GOLDEN CARAVAN
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

GOSPEL OF THOMAS
The Hidden Sayings of Jesus

Translation, Notes and Introduction by Marvin Meyer
Interpretation by Harold Bloom

THE GOSPELS OF MARY
The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene the Companion of Jesus

Marvin Meyer with Esther A. DeBoer

LAS HAZAÑAS DEL INCOMPARABLE MULÁ NASRUDÍN
Idries Shah

THE HEALING BRAIN
Breakthrough Discoveries about How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

Robert Ornstein and David Sobel

THE HEALING BRAIN: A SCIENTIFIC READER
Edited by Robert Ornstein and Charles Swencionis

THE HEALTHY MIND, HEALTHY BODY HANDBOOK
Robert Ornstein and David Sobel

HEALTHY PLEASURES
Robert Ornstein and David Sobel

EL HOMBRE MALEDUCADO
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago
Trans. by Rita Wirkala

EL HOMRE Y EL ZORRO
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Sally Mallam
Trans. by Rita Wirkala

THE HUNDRED TALES OF WISDOM
Life, Teachings and Miracles of Jalaludin Rumi from Aflaki's 'Munaquib,' together with certain important stories from Rumi's works, traditionally known as 'The Hundred Tales of Wisdom'

Translated from the Persian and presented by Idries Shah

HYPNOTISM EAST AND WEST
Twenty Hypnotic Methods, Summaries of Techniques and Hypnotism Among the Arabs

R.J. Chester

ICR NO. 1 - VICO'S THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF HISTORICAL CHANGE
Leon Pompa

ICR NO. 2 - SOME UNUSUAL ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATION
Edward Campbell

ICR NO. 5 - EDUCATION AND ELITISM IN NAZI GERMANY
Robert Cecil CMG

ICR NO. 6 - CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Robert Cecil CMG

ICR NO. 7 - THE SOKODAE: A WEST AFRICAN DANCE
Dr. Drid Williams

ICR NO. 8 - MY YEARS WITH THE ARABS
General Sir John Glubb, KCB

ICR NO. 9 - SOME EFFECTS OF MUSIC
Prof. D. B. Fry

ICR NO. 10 - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE
Dr. Alexander King, CMG, CBE

ICR NO. 11 - PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Prof. Robert Ornstein

ICR NO. 12 - PURPOSES OF EDUCATION
Dr. F. D. Rushworth, Prof. K. R. Minogue and Lord Wolfenden

ICR NO. 16 - EAST AND WEST, TODAY AND YESTERDAY
By various authors

ICR NO. 17 - SCIENCE AND THE PARANORMAL
Leonard Lewin, DSc

ICR NO. 18 - SUFIC TRACES IN GEORGIAN LITERATURE
Katharine Vivian

ICR NO. 19 - REMBRANDT AND ANGELS
Michael Rubinstein

ICR NO. 21 - THE AGE OF ANXIETY: A REASSESSMENT
Malcolm Lader

ICR NO. 23 - THE HEALING WITHIN: MEDICINE, HEALTH AND WHOLENESS
Robin Price

ICR NO. 24 - A CLASH OF CULTURES
The Malaysian Experience

David Widdicombe, QC

ICR NO. 25 - EVALUATING SPIRITUAL AND UTOPIAN GROUPS
Arthur J. Deikman, MD

ICR NO. 27 - CULTS IN 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN
Robert Cecil CMG

ICR NO. 28 - BLACK CULTURE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN COLOMBIA
Peter Wade

ICR NO. 29 - URBAN LEGENDS AND THE JAPANESE TALE
David Schaefer

ICR NO. 30 - THE ROLE OF 'PRIMITIVE' PEOPLE IN IDENTIFYING AND APPROACHING HUMAN PROBLEMS

ICR NO. 31 - THE USE OF OMENS, MAGIC, AND SORCERY FOR POWER AND HUNTING

ICR NO. 32 - RITUAL FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE PRESENT DAY

ICR NO. 34 - CULTURAL IDENTITY: SOLUTION OR PROBLEM?
Peter Wade

ICR NO. 35 - INVENTIONS AND INVENTING: FINDING SOLUTIONS TO PRACTICAL PROBLEMS
Kevin Byron

ICR NO. 36 - PROBLEMS, MYTHS AND STORIES
Doris Lessing

ICR NO. 37 - MODERN PRIMITIVES
The Recurrent Ritual of Adornment


ICR NO. 39 - THE MARKETING OF CHRISTIANITY
The Evolution of Early Christian Doctrine


ICR NO. 40 - THE PRESS GANG
The World of Journalese

Philip Howard

THE INFANT'S WORLD
Philippe Rochat

INFLUENCE
4th Edition

Robert Cialdini

JORGE LUIS BORGES: SOURCES AND ILLUMINATION
G. de Garayalde

THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
The Story of Hai bin Yaqzan

Abu bakr Muhammed bin Tufail
Translated by Dr. R. Kocache

JOURNEYS WITH A SUFI MASTER
Bashir M. Dervish
edited by A.L. Griffiths

THE KASIDAH
of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

Sir Richard Burton

KNOWING HOW TO KNOW
Idries Shah

LEARNED OPTIMISM
Martin E. P. Seligman

LEARNING FROM STORIES
A lecture by Idries Shah, plus teaching-stories and narratives selected from Caravan of Dreams and The Adventures of Mulla Nasrudin, jokes and tales from the Nasrudin Corpus

Idries Shah, selections read by The London College of Storytellers

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah

LETTERS AND LECTURES OF IDRIES SHAH
Compiled and Edited by Adam Musa

THE LIFE AND WORK OF JALALUDDIN RUMI
Afzal Iqbal, Ph.D.
with a foreword by A.J. Arberry

THE LION WHO SAW HIMSELF IN THE WATER
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Ingrid Rodriguez

THE LION WHO SAW HIMSELF IN THE WATER/EL LEON QUE SE VIO EN EL AGUA
Idries Shah
Illustrated By Ingrid Rodriguez

LOST CHRISTIANITIES
The Battle for Scripture and the Faith We Never Knew

Bart D. Ehrman

THE MAGIC HORSE
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Julie Freeman

THE MAGIC MONASTERY
Idries Shah

THE MAN AND THE FOX
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Sally Mallam

THE MAN WITH BAD MANNERS
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Rose Mary Santiago

THE MANIPULATED MIND
Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination

Denise Winn

MEDITATION AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
Robert Ornstein

THE MIDDLE EAST BEDSIDE BOOK
Edited by Tahir Shah
Selected by Idries Shah

THE MIND FIELD
Robert Ornstein

A MIND SO RARE
The Evolution of Human Consciousness

Merlin Donald

MISQUOTING JESUS
The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Bart D. Ehrman

EL MONASTERIO MAGICO
Idries Shah

THE MORAL ANIMAL
Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life

Robert Wright

MULTIMIND
A New Way of Looking at Human Behavior

Robert Ornstein

MY KHYBER MARRIAGE
Morag Murray Abdullah

MY LIFE -- FROM BRIGAND TO KING
Autobiography of Amir Habibullah

Amir Habibullah

THE MYTH OF REPRESSED MEMORY
Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham

THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS
Idries Shah

THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS MAN
Institute for Cultural Research
edited by D.B. Fry

NATURE'S THUMBPRINT
The New Genetics of Personality

Peter B. Neubauer and Alexander Neubauer

NEEM THE HALF-BOY
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Midori Mori & Robert Revels

NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF SUFI STUDY
Idries Shah

NEW RESEARCH ON CURRENT PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
Various Authors

NEW WORLD NEW MIND
Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich

EL NIÑO TíMIDO
Superar y prevenir la timidez desde la infancia

Philip G. Zimbardo and Shirley Radl

THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION
Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do

Judith Rich Harris

OBSERVATIONS BY IDRIES SHAH, COLLECTED BY LINDSI TARABDAR & Z.E. NA'LBANDEV, PLUS
LETTERS AND LECTURES OF IDRIES SHAH, COMPILED AND EDITED BY ADAM MUSA; READ BY DAVID WADE

Idries Shah

OBSERVATIONS BY IDRIES SHAH
Collected by Lindsi Tarabdar and Zoltan E. Na'lbandev

THE OLD WOMAN AND THE EAGLE
Idries Shah
Illustrated By Natasha Delmar

THE OLD WOMAN AND THE EAGLE
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Natasha Delmar

ON THE NATURE OF SUFI KNOWLEDGE
A lecture by Idries Shah, plus teaching-stories and narratives selected from Seeker After Truth and Wisdom of the Idiots

Idries Shah, selections read by The London College of Storytellers

ORIENTAL MAGIC
Idries Shah
foreword by Louis Marin

ORIGINS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Gordon Claridge

ORIGINS OF THE MODERN MIND
Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition

Merlin Donald

OVERCOMING ASSUMPTIONS THAT INHIBIT SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
A lecture by Idries Shah delivered before a live audience, plus teaching-stories and narratives selected from Tales of the Dervishes

PENSADORES DEL ORIENTE
Idries Shah

THE PEOPLE OF THE SECRET
Ernest Scott
with an introduction by Colin Wilson

A PERFUMED SCORPION The Way to the Way
Idries Shah

PETER, PAUL, AND MARY MAGDALENE
The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend

Bart D. Ehrman

THE PLEASANTRIES OF THE INCREDIBLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Robert Ornstein

THE QUATRAINS OF KHALILULLAH KHALILI
Khalilullah Khalili

REFLECTIONS
Idries Shah

REFLECTIONS
A selection of Shah's own observations, fables, comments, and aphorisms

Idries Shah, read by David Wade

THE RELIGION OF THE SUFIS
Translated from The Dabistan

David Shea and Anthony Troyer
Introduction by Idries Shah

REVELATION OF THE SECRETS OF THE BIRDS AND FLOWERS
Al-Muqaddasi
Translated by Irene Hoare and Darya Galy
Edited by Denise Winn

THE RIGHT MIND
Making Sense of the Hemispheres

Robert Ornstein

THE ROOTS OF THE SELF
Robert Ornstein

THE ROSE GARDEN
Sheikh Muslihu-d-Din Saadi of Shiraz
translated by Edward R. Eastwick

LA SABIDURIA DE LOS IDIOTAS
Idries Shah

THE SACRED KNOWLEDGE
The Altaf al-Quds of Shah Waliullah
Translated by G.N. Jalbani and David Pendlebury

THE SECRET GARDEN
of Mahmud Shabistari

Translated by Johnson Pasha

SEEKER AFTER TRUTH
A Handbook

Idries Shah

SELECTIONS FROM THE KORAN
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

THE SEVEN SINS OF MEMORY
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers

Daniel L. Schacter

THE SHY CHILD
Philip G. Zimbardo and Shirley Radl

THE SILLY CHICKEN
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Jeff Jackson

THE SILLY CHICKEN/EL POLLO BOBO
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Jeff Jackson
Trans. Rita Wirkala

SOUNDS FROM THE BELL JAR
Ten Psychotic Authors

Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, and Gwen Watkins

SPECIAL ILLUMINATION
The Sufi Use of Humor

Idries Shah

THE SPIRIT OF THE EAST
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

THE SUBTLETIES OF THE INIMITABLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE SUFI MYSTERY
with writings by Sir Richard Burton, Robert Graves, Idries Shah and others
Edited by N.P. Archer

SUFI THOUGHT AND ACTION
Assembled by Idries Shah

THE SUFIS
Idries Shah

LOS SUFIS
Idries Shah

SUFISM AND THE ISLAMIC TRADITION
The Lamahat and Sata'at of Shah Waliullah of Delhi

Translated by J.N. Jalbani
Edited by D.B. Fry

THE TALE OF THE FOUR DERVISHES
Of Amir Khusru

Retold by Amina Shah

TALES FROM THE BAZAARS
Amina Shah

TALES OF AFGHANISTAN
Retold by Amina Shah

TALES OF THE DERVISHES
Teaching-stories of Sufi Masters over the past thousand years

Idries Shah

TEACHERS OF GURDJIEFF
Rafael Lefort

THE TEACHING-STORY
Observations on the Folklore of our 'Modern' Thought

Idries Shah
Read by David Wade and the London College of Storytellers.
Evenings with Idries Shah collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hafiz

TEACHINGS OF RUMI (MASNAVI I MA'NAVI)
The Spiritual Couplets of Jalaludin Rumi

Translated and abridged by E. H. Whinfield
with an introduction by Idries Shah

THEORIES, PRACTICES & TRAINING SYSTEMS OF A SUFI SCHOOL
Canon W. H. T. Gairdner

THINKERS OF THE EAST
Idries Shah

THE TREATISE OF THE POOL
Al-Mawala al-Hawdiyya

Obadya Maimonides
Translated by Paul Fenton

TRUTH AND FICTION IN THE DA VINCI CODE
A Historian Reveals What We Really Know About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine

Bart D. Ehrman

UN ESCORPIÓN PERFUMADO
Idries Shah

UNMASKING THE FACE
A guide to recognizing emotions from facial expressions

Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Friesen

THE USER ILLUSION
Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Tor Norretranders

A VEILED GAZELLE
Seeing How to See

Idries Shah
Read by the London College of Storytellers

VISITS TO SUFI CENTRES
Some Recent Research Papers on Sufis and Sufism

Various Authors

THE WALLED GARDEN OF TRUTH The Hadiqa of Hakim Sanai
Translated and abridged by D.L. Pendlebury

THE WAY OF THE SUFI
Idries Shah

WISDOM OF THE IDIOTS
Idries Shah

THE WORLD OF NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE WORLD OF THE SUFI
Introduction by Idries Shah
Edited by Peter Brent

WORLD TALES
Idries Shah

EL YO DOMINANTE
Idries Shah

YUSUF AND ZULAIKHA
Hakim Nuruddin Abdurrahman Jami
translated and edited by David Pendlebury