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Sufism and Traditional Psychologies

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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

ALONE IN ARABIAN NIGHTS
Sirdar Ikbar Ali Shah

AMONG THE DERVISHES
Omar Michael Burke

APRENDER A APRENDER
Idries Shah

THE ASSEMBLIES OF AL-HARIRI
Retold by Amina Shah

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

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

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

EVENINGS WITH IDRIES SHAH
Sufi Discussions

Collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hanafy

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

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.

LAS HAZAÑAS DEL INCOMPARABLE MULÁ NASRUDÍN
Idries Shah

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. 18 - SUFIC TRACES IN GEORGIAN LITERATURE
Katharine Vivian

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

KNOWING HOW TO KNOW
Idries Shah

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

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

EL MONASTERIO MAGICO
Idries Shah

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

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 MYSTICISM
Nasafi's Remotest Aim

Presented by E. H. Palmer

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

THE PLEASANTRIES OF THE INCREDIBLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

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 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

SEEKER AFTER TRUTH
A Handbook

Idries Shah

THE SILLY CHICKEN
Idries Shah
Illustrated by Jeff Jackson

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

SPECIAL ILLUMINATION
The Sufi Use of Humor

Idries 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

TALES FROM THE BAZAARS
Amina Shah

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

Idries Shah

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

TRAVELS IN THE UNKNOWN EAST
John Grant

THE TREATISE OF THE POOL
Al-Mawala al-Hawdiyya

Obadya Maimonides
Translated by Paul Fenton

UN ESCORPIÓN PERFUMADO
Idries Shah

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