(Bilingual English-Ukrainian edition) When a boy visits another village, he is amazed to find the people terrified of something that - just because they have not seen it before - they mistake for a terrible, dangerous animal. Using his own knowledge and...
(Bilingual English-Ukrainian edition) 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, Egypt. Adopted by a local...
A wealthy merchant's prize possession is a beautiful bird. Believing that he loves the exotic creature too much to set it free, the merchant discovers that animals are sometimes better at learning by example than humans. This is one of a series of...
(Bilingual English-Ukrainian edition) This is a delightful and humorous tale about a chicken who learns to speak as we do - with unexpected consequences. The surprising events that follow intrigue young children and, and at the same time, alert them in...
AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION The Englishman's Handbook is the third book in Idries Shah's best-selling trilogy on why the English are as strange as they are. He examines the 'baffling phenomena of the British and Britishness', presenting a...
The Natives Are Restless chronicles some of the amazing, amusing, and thought-provoking adventures of the Afghan traveller and writer, Idries Shah, among members of what he calls the English tribe. It is an enthralling sequel to his bestselling Darkest...
AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITION . The Natives Are Restless chronicles some of the amazing, amusing, and thought-provoking adventures of the Afghan traveller and writer, Idries Shah, among members of what he calls the English tribe. It is an enthralling sequel...
In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called âHathabyâ, but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a...
First published two years after his death, in 1996, it includes study papers and materials presented to his students over the course of his life, now made available to the wider public.
Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind.
How can you develop spiritual understanding?. This sequel to Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self turns that question on its head. It claims that were bombarded by a spiritual impulse all the time. So its more useful to look at the reasons we...
How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale of Aladdin and his wondrous lamp really taken from Wales (where it has been found) to the...
How can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale of Aladdin and his wondrous lamp really taken from Wales (where it has been found) to the...