Download or read book Tales of the Dervishes written by Idries Shah and published by Octagon Press Ltd. This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mysterious chest is buried unopened. A wondrous caravan brings fortune to a simple cobbler. An outcast princess creates a new life in the wilderness. Some of the 78 tales in this remarkable book first appeared in print over a thousand years ago; others are medieval classics. Yet each has a special relevance for us at the dawn of the 21st century. All are told with Idries Shah's distinctive wit and grace and the author's own commentary notes. These are teaching stories in the Sufi tradition. Those who probe beyond the surface will find multiple meanings to challenge assumptions and foster new ways of thinking and perceiving. Tales of the Dervishes is essential reading for anyone interested in Sufi thought, the significance and history of tales, or simply superb entertainment.
Download or read book A Tale of Four Dervishes written by Mīr Amman Dihlavī and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In despair at having no son to succeed him, the King of Turkey leaves his palace to live in seclusion. Soon after, however, he encounters four wandering dervishes - three princes and a rich merchant from Persia, Yemen and China - who have been guided to Turkey by a supernatural force that prophesied their meeting. The five men sit together in the dead of night, each in turn telling the tale of lost love that led him to renounce the world. As their stories within stories unfold, a magnificent world is revealed of courtly intrigue and romance, fairies and djinn, oriental gardens and lavish feasts, adventures and mishaps. A Tale of Four Dervishes (1803) is an exquisite example of Urdu fiction that provides a fascinating glimpse into the customs, beliefs and people of the time.
Download or read book Thus Spake the Dervish written by Alexandre Papas and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.
Download or read book The Downfall of the Dervishes written by Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land and the Book Or Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land written by William McClure Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks written by Miss Pardoe (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dervishes written by John Porter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dervishes Or Oriental Spiritualism written by John Porter Brown and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of the Dervishes written by Idries Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe them. The material in Tales of the Dervishes is the result of a thousand years of development, during which Dervish masters used these and other teaching stories to instruct their disciples. The tales are held to convey powers of increasing perception unknown to the ordinary man.
Download or read book The Whirling Dervishes written by Shems Friedlander and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is the esoteric aspect of Islam. Its purpose is to convey direct knowledge of the eternal. The Sufis impart knowledge through lineages that go back to the Prophet Muhammud. In these various Sufi orders, the zikr, the repetition of "la illaha illa'llah" (There is no God but God), is part of initiation ceremonies. In fact, the method of the Sufis is zikr, and the manner in which zikr is performed is the essential difference among the various orders. The Dervishes repeat their zikr as they turn. They empty their hearts of all but the thought of God and whirl in the ecstatic movements of His breath.
Download or read book Observations on Various Passages of Scripture Placing Them in a New Light and Ascertaining the Meaning of Several Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Used by the Learned written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Land and the Book Or Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs the Scenes and Scenery of the Holy Land written by William M. Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fundamentals Of Rumis Thought written by Sefik Can and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work attempts to present Rumi to the English-speaking world and to shed light on his life as seen from within the Islamic mystical tradition. The knowledge presented in this work comes from Sefik Can, a great expert of Rumi and who used to be the highest authority, Sertariq, of the Mevlevi Sufi order in Turkey until he passed away on January 24, 2005. Two aspects of this work make it unique. The first is that the book was originally authored by a man who is ninety five years old and who has dedicated his entire life to the teachings of Rumu. Such a Mevlevi's view of Rumi makes this work greatly valuable. The second important contribution to the book is the foreword, which was translated by from the original turkish, written by M. Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Muslim thinker and interfaith activist of Turkey.
Download or read book American Dervish written by Ayad Akhtar and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
Download or read book The Oriental World written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments Now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
