Download or read book The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Tahir Shah's trilogy of Nasrudin stories, The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin builds on his highly acclaimed travelogue - Travels With Nasrudin. Having been raised in a household in which the wise fool of Oriental folklore was regarded both as an honorary member of the family, and as a problem solver par excellence, Shah was encouraged from an early age to regard the world around him through the lens of Nasrudin's humour. This collection of hilarious original stories - charting the globetrotting travels of Nasrudin from Seattle to Samarkand, and from Cairo to Bangkok, turns the world inside out and upside down.
Download or read book The Voyages and Vicissitudes of Nasrudin written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in Tahir Shah's series of Nasrudin stories, The Voyages and Vicissitudes of Nasrudin builds on the foundations laid down by The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin and The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin, completing the trilogy. In turn, the three volumes of Nasrudin tales are underpinned by Shah's celebrated travelogue, Travels With Nasrudin. Part of an ancient hybrid of 'foolish wisdom', Nasrudin tales have been relied upon for centuries, as a way of freeing the mind from existing preconceptions and entrenched ways of thought. Regarded by many as psychological puzzle-tales, the jokes featuring the wise fool of Oriental folklore are told and retold in teahouses, office blocks, and ordinary homes - from Casablanca to Canton.
Download or read book The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in Tahir Shah's trilogy of Nasrudin stories, The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin follows hot on the heels of The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin, and the highly acclaimed Travels With Nasrudin. Although uproariously funny, Nasrudin tales are regarded as complex psychological machineries in their own right - the kind of tales that have simultaneously provided laughter and problem-solving for centuries across Oriental lands. A random selection of Nasrudin's travels - through the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia - The Peregrinations act on many levels, providing wisdom, humour, and a full inside-out recalibration of the mind.
Download or read book The Tahir Shah Fiction Reader written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Tahir Shah began his writing career with travel literature, in recent years he has embraced the realm of fiction, producing groundbreaking work on an awe-inspiring scale. His first work within the genre was Timbuctoo, a major foundation stone of historical fiction. A series of trailblazing bestselling novels quickly followed, positioning Shah as a supreme force in imaginary realism, worthy of Borges and Chatwin. Shah's fictional corpus includes the first three titles within the Jinn Hunter series - a vast fantastical universe inspired by the realm of A Thousand and One Nights. It also includes Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man, a novel that is as breathtaking in scope as it is in ingenuity. In addition, Shah's works of fiction encompass the hilarious trilogy of the wise fool of Oriental folklore, Nasrudin, and a dazzling array of short novels and stories - from the mesmerizing Eye Spy to Godman, and from Casablanca Blues to Scorpion Soup. The Tahir Shah Fiction Reader includes chapters from - Eye Spy Godman Casablanca Blues Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man Jinn Hunter: Book One - The Prism Jinn Hunter: Book Two - The Jinnslayer Jinn Hunter: Book Three - The Perplexity Paris Syndrome Scorpion Soup Tales Told to a Melon The Arabian Nights Adventures The Misadventures of the Mystifying Nasrudin The Peregrinations of the Perplexing Nasrudin The Voyages and Vicissitudes of Nasrudin Timbuctoo
Download or read book Travels with Nasrudin written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wise fool of Oriental folklore, Nasrudin is known across a vast swathe of the globe - from Morocco in the west, to Indonesia in the east. Appearing under different names and in all manner of guises, he's universally admired for his back-to-front brand of genius - so much so that at least a dozen countries insist he was one of them. In reality, he is of course found everywhere - even in regions where he has no name. Tales of Nasrudin's wise-foolery have been told in caravanserais and teahouses since ancient times, just as they are recounted in cafés, office buildings, and homes the world over today. In the Land of Nasrudin, the wise are foolish and the foolish are wise. Leading us through a keyhole into a realm that's back-to-front and inside-out, the stories turn what we think we know and understand on its head. At the same time, Nasrudin tales form a cornerstone in an ancient and advanced psychology. As you laugh at the off-beat humour, the subconscious turns the puzzle-joke around, working away at it like a terrier worrying a rag doll. Tahir Shah was first introduced to Nasrudin by his father - the writer and thinker - Idries Shah. In his childhood, and in his travels, the wise fool has provided a lens through which Tahir has perceived the world. As he says, 'By training my attention to the methods of the wise fool, I have found new dimensions reveal themselves to me - both in lands I thought I knew, and in fresh dominions.' A remarkable work of exploration through human culture, and an observant self-examination, Travels With Nasrudin is unlike any other work of the travel genre published in recent times.
Download or read book TIMBUCTOO written by Tahir Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Europe's great explorers were sent out to find Timbuctoo - a city supposedly built from pure gold. Most of them never returned alive. At the height of the Timbuctoo Mania, 200 years ago, an illiterate American sailor was found on the streets of snowbound London, claiming to have been taken there as a white slave.
Download or read book The Caliph s House written by Tahir Shah and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns hilarious and harrowing, this work by an acclaimed English travel writer is the story of his family's move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge--and nothing is as easy as it seems.
Download or read book The Caravanserai Stories written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight strangers were clustered around the campfire of the caravanserai - silhouetted, ragged, and ripened by adventure. As the flames licked the darkness, sparks spitting up into the nocturnal firmament, the traveller dressed in orange cleared his throat and told his tale... And so starts Jinnlore, one of the eight extraordinary Caravanserai Stories - short tales that take the reader on a journey of enchantment and delight. Inspired by his Afghan grandfather's first book, Eastern Moonbeams, published a century ago, Tahir Shah's The Caravanserai Stories are part of the heritage of folklore, of which The Thousand and One Nights is a foundation stone. Shah says: 'Teaching stories such as these have been used throughout much of the world since the dawn of human society. Indeed, teaching stories, fables, legends, and wider folklore are like encoded documents of humanity - constituting a repository of knowledge amassed over millennia.' Regarded as one of the most important and prolific storytellers working today, Tahir Shah's body of work comprises more than sixty books, many of them containing tales and folklore gleaned from all corners of the world.
Download or read book Beyond the Devil s Teeth written by Tahir Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-five million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwanaland split apart. This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge landmass was named after the Gond people of India. Meeting a Gond storyteller on a visit to Bombay, Tahir Shah heard their ancient saga. He vowed to visit all three parts of Gondwanaland. As he travelled he met an extraordinary range of wanderers and expatriates, attended magical ceremonies and sought mythical treasures. Roughing it most of the way, Shah's expeditions move through sweltering India and Pakistan, Uganda and Rwanda, Kenya and Liberia, Brazil and finally Argentina's Patagonian glaciers.Roughing it for most of the journey, Shah shared his travels and his tales with a diverting mix of eccentric and entertaining characters, from Osman and Prideep, Bombay's answer to Laurel and Hardy, to Oswaldo Rodrigues Oswaldo, a well turned out Patagonian version of Danny De Vito.
Download or read book Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man written by Tahir Shah and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannibal Fogg & the Supreme Secret of ManThrough a life cloaked in mystery, Edwardian polymath Hannibal G. Fogg pushed the boundaries of exploration, science and code-breaking - producing feats of unrivalled cerebral dexterity. Hailing from a landed family, Fogg was a confidant to world leaders, a soldier, swordsman, prolific author, inventor, collector, and quite probably the most extraordinary man ever to have lived.But, while such genius won him accolades and fame, it also fanned the flames of envy. Unable to take Fogg's triumphs any longer, the British establishment sought to have him discredited. His life work was publically destroyed in what was to become known as the 'Great Foggian Purge'. Banished from England, he lived out his days in secrecy - before disappearing on an expedition to Manchuria in the winter of 1939.Almost eight decades passed.Then, one morning William Fogg receives a letter from a legal firm in London, claiming he's the sole inheritor to his great-great-grandfather's Estate. Knowing almost nothing of his forebear, he takes possession of the single object left in the bequest - a large rusty iron key... the key to a door in Marrakesh.And there begins the treasure trail of mystery, danger and uproar, as William pieces together the clues left for him by Hannibal Fogg. Zigzagging through five continents, the quest reveals how Alexander the Great was never beaten in battle. By completing the life work of Hannibal, William Fogg strives to lift the veil on the Supreme Secret of Man.First in a series of ground-breaking adventure novels from master storyteller, Tahir Shah, Hannibal Fogg and the Supreme Secret of Man is unlike anything published in recent times. Ten years in the making, it's as worldly and wise as the indefatigable Hannibal Fogg.By the celebrated author of The Caliph's House, a TIME Top Ten Book of the Year.
Download or read book Jinn Hunter written by Tahir Shah and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oddball and loner Oliver Quinn was raised by his uncle, the proprietor of New York's most bizarre emporium of Oriental rugs, Ozymandias & Son. Zoned out more than he's zoned in, Oliver perceives patterns in everything - from fallen autumn leaves in Central Park, to the freckles on a stranger's face. When his uncle gives him a mysterious paperweight - said to have been in the family for centuries - since it was discovered by a farmer on the Mongolian Steppes - Oliver's life changes in the most extraordinary way. Gaining entry into the secret Realm that shrouds all our lives, he learns what he imagines to be reality is no more than a fragment of what actually exists. In a multiverse, where every permutation is not only possible but certain, our world is an insignificant backwater. With the veil lifted, Oliver is introduced to a parallel life form with which we share the multiverse... The mysterious and all-powerful race of Jinn. Far from the loveable blue-skinned giants projected by Hollywood, Jinn are capable of wreaking terror on an unknown scale. When they go rogue, as they frequently do, they must be captured. This perilous task is entrusted to the bravest fraternity of warriors in existence - The Jinn Hunters. Stumbling into the secret heart of the Realm, Oliver learns of the Prism. A vast penitentiary fashioned from sheets of impregnable glass, it contains legions of incarcerated Jinn. But, as Oliver soon comes to understand, his arrival is no accident. Having brooded for an eternity - since being imprisoned by King Solomon - the most evil Jinn in all existence has just escaped... Nequissimus. The future of the Realm rests on Oliver Quinn, whose ancestral bloodline is primed to capture the great Jinn, thereby saving not only humanity, but the entire multiverse. A cross between The Thousand and One Nights and The Men in Black, THE PRISM is the first awe-inspiring novel in Tahir Shah's much-awaited JINN HUNTER series. Quite possibly the most original book of its age, it lures the reader into a Twilight Zone conjured from pure imagination.
Download or read book Trail of Feathers Dyslexic edition written by Tahir Shah and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Spanish Conquistadors swept through Peru in the sixteenth century, they were searching for great golden treasure. In 1572 they stormed the Inca stronghold of Vilcabamba, only to find the city deserted, burned, a nd already stripped of its wealth. According to legend the Incas had retreated deep into the jungle where they built another magnificent city in an inaccessible quarter of the cloud forest. For more than four centuries explorers and adventurers, archaeologists and warrior-priests have searched for the gold and riches of the Incas, and this lost city of Paititi, known by the local Machiguenga tribe as 'The House of the Tiger King'. House of the Tiger King is the tale of Shah's remarkable adventure to find the greatest lost city of the Americas, and the treasure of the Incas. Along the way he found himself considering others who have spent decades in pursuit of lost cities, and asks why anyone would find it necessary to mount such a quest at all
Download or read book The Book of the Book written by Idries Shah and published by Octagon Press Ltd. This book was released on 1969 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God 4 0 written by Robert Ornstein and published by Malor Books. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new view of "God" centers on our innate quiescent faculty that, if developed, can help to dissolve religious, tribal and cultural biases and usher in a higher level of conscious connection- a new "spiritual literacy."
Download or read book The Mind Parasites written by Colin Wilson and published by Monkfish Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson has blended H.P. Lovecraft's dark vision with his own revolutionary philosophy and unique narrative powers to produce a stunning, high-tension story of vaulting imagination. A professor makes a horrifying discovery while excavating a sinister archaeological site. For over 200 years, mind parasites have been lurking in the deepest layers of human consciousness, feeding on human life force and steadily gaining a foothold on the planet. Now they threaten humanity's extinction. They can be fought with one weapon only: the mind, pushed to--and beyond--its limits. Pushed so far that humans can read each other's thoughts, that the moon can be shifted from its orbit by thought alone. Pushed so that man can at last join battle with the loathsome parasites on equal terms.
Download or read book Sorcerer s Apprentice written by Tahir Shah and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tahir Shah has a genius for surreal travelling, finding or creating situations and people. Doris...
Download or read book In Search of King Solomon s Mines written by Tahir Shah and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, was possessed of extraordinary wealth. The grand temple he built in Jerusalem was covered in gold. Over the ages, many have sought to find the source of the great king's wealth -- but none with so much flair, wit, or whimsy as Tahir Shah. Intrigued by a map he finds in a shop not far from the site of the temple, Shah assembles a multitude of clues to the location of Solomon's mines. From ancient texts to modern hearsay, all point across the Red Sea to Ethiopia. Shah's trail takes him on a wild ride by taxi, bus, camel, and donkey to the gold-bearing corners of this storied and beautiful country. He interviews the hyena man of Harar, is hauled up on a rope to enter a remote cliff-face monastery, and stumbles upon an illegal gold mine where thousands of men, women, and children dig with their hands. But the hardest leg of the journey is to the accursed mountain of Tullu Wallel, where legend says the devil keeps watch over the entrance to an ancient mine shaft... Book jacket.
