“shah idries”

Forty-three years in the writing, The Masnavi was Rumi’s greatest work, and one of the most important books in the study of Sufi ideas. Rumi’s unique, teasing genius comes through on almost every page, challenging the reader to look at everyday things from a different viewpoint.... More

A Sufi teaching tale of a chicken that has learned to speak as people do and spreads an alarming warning, which causes the townspeople to panic without first considering the messenger.... More

A unique and little-known religion, Sufism follows a mystical teaching and a way of life that has had an enormous though largely unrecognized impact on both the East and West for four thousand years. This authoritative book fills a colossal gap in Western documentation of Eastern subjects.... More