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008 820712r19821967enk 000 0 eng
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100 1 $aShah, Idries,$d1924-
245 10 $aTales of the dervishes :$bteaching stories of the Sufi masters over the past thousand years : selected from the Sufi classics, from oral tradition, from unpublished manuscripts and schools of Sufi teaching in many countries /$cIdries Shah.
260 $aLondon :$bOctagon,$c1977, c1982$g(1982 [printing])
300 $a221 p. ;$c23 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: London : Cape, 1967.
505 0 $aTales of the dervishes: Three fishes -- Food of paradise -- When the waters were changed -- Tale of the sands -- Blind ones and the matter of the elephant -- Dog, the stick and the sufi -- How to catch monkeys -- Ancient coffer of Nuri Bey -- Three truths -- Sultan who became an exile -- Story of fire -- Ogre and the sufi -- Merchant and the Christian dervish -- Golden fortune -- Candlestick of iron -- Strike on this spot -- Why the clay birds flew away -- Gnat namouss-and the elephant -- Idiot, the wise man and the jug -- Wayward princess -- Bequest -- Oath -- Idiot in the great city -- Founding of a tradition -- Fatima the spinner and the tent -- Gates of paradise -- Man who was easily angered -- Dog and the donkey -- Carrying shoes -- Man who walked on water -- Ant and the dragonfly -- Story of tea -- King who decided to be generous -- Cure of human blood -- Dam -- Three dervishes -- Four magic treasures -- Dreams and the loaf of bread -- Bread and jewels -- Limitations of dogma -- Fisherman and the genie -- Time, the place and the people -- Parable of the three domains -- Valuable-and worthless -- Bird and the egg -- Three pieces of advice -- Mountain path -- Snake and the peacock -- Water of paradise -- Horseman and the snake -- Isa and the doubters -- In the street of the perfume-sellers -- Parable of the greedy sons -- Nature of discipleship -- Initiation of Malik Dinar -- Idiot and the browsing camel -- Three jewelled rings -- Man with the inexplicable life -- Man whose time was wrong -- Maruf the cobbler -- Wisdom for sale --King and the poor boy -- Three teachers and the muleteers -- Bayazid and the selfish man -- People who attain -- Wayfarer, strangeness and savetime -- Tijur Agha and the speech of animals -- Indian bird -- When death came to Baghdad -- Grammarian and the dervish -- Dervish and the princess -- Increasing of necessity -- Man who looked only at the obvious -- How knowledge was earned -- Lamp shop -- Chariot -- Lame man and the blind man -- Servants and the house -- Generous man -- Host and the guests -- King's son.
650 0 $aTales, Sufi.
653 $aSufi tales & legends - Anthologies
650 17 $aSoefisme.$2gtt
650 17 $aSoefi's.$2gtt
650 17 $aMythen.$2gtt
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