World War I was raging in Europe when young Scotswoman Morag Murray met and fell in love with the handsome son of a Pathan chieftain. This is her own remarkable story, full of romance and adventure. Overcoming the resistance of both their families, they married, eventually settling in the prince's Khyber homeland. She describes her adventures in exquisite detail: the luxurious spa-like treatment in preparation for her marriage; a fairy-tale wedding with thousands of gift-bearing guests spread out for miles in a city of tents; defending a fort with her sisters-in-law during a raid by a rival tribe. Murray leaves the reader sharing her deep affection forher husband's country, its people and culture. And her openness, curiosity, and zest for life are inspirational. She enters her new world with energy and respect -- even managing to plot a marriage of love for her sister-in-law that ends hostilities between two rival clans.

My Khyber Marriage: Experiences of a Scotswoman as the Wife of a Pathan Chieftain's Son

Self-Help

Abdullah, Morag Murray

Relationships

The Octagon Press

This is a treasury of traditional folklore by Amina Shah, one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century. The collection includes tales from Central Asia and India, Arabia, Europe, and the Americas.

Tales from the Bazaars

Shah, Amina

Teen & Young Adult

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Good, Translated by Johnson Pasha. Ex.lib. A good, clean &amp; sound copy. Tail of spine has small loss.

The secret garden

Shabistari, Mahmud

In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.

The memoirs of a survivor

LESSING, DORIS

"And among the wondrous things is a veiled gazelle: a Divine Subtlety, veiled by a state of the Self, Referring to the States of those who know. Unable To explain their perceptions to others, they can only indicate them to whoever has started to feel something similar. . . ." --Muhiyuddin Ibn El-Arabi, The Interpreter of Desires 
The title, A Veiled Gazelle, is taken from this beautiful poem by 12th-century mystic, Ibn Arabi. The "gazelles" are extraordinary experiences and perceptions latent in ordinary man. "Veiling" refers to the action of the subjective or "commanding" self, which partly through indoctrination and partly through base aspirations, prevents higher vision. 
Says Shah in the introduction: "Sufi poetry, literature, tales and activities are the instruments which, when employed with insight and prescription rather than automatically or obsessively, help in the relationship between Sufi and pupil, toward the removal of the veils." 
This book is a remarkable working example of these instruments.

A Veiled Gazelle: Seeing How to See

Politics & Social Sciences

SHAH, IDRIES

Philosophy

The King's son: Readings in the traditional psychologies and contemporary thought on man

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

Sheikh Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi, the great illuminist philosopher and mystic of the 12th century, evoked such opposition and hatred in the orthodox of his time that he was put to death, at the insistence and by order of Saladin’s nephew in 1191. He became known thereafter as the "Murdered Sheikh." In addition to his monumental exposition, The Wisdom of Illumination, and other major works, he left a number of smaller treatises which form an important part of the Sufi heritage. Nine of these treatises, dealing with the initiation of the aspirant into the spiritual realm, are here presented in English, with an introduction by the translator, W. M.Thackston, Jr.

The Mystical & Visionary Treatises of Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi

Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi

Religious Studies

This work offers illustrative anecdotes used in Sufi teaching - most of these have been unpublished previously. The material is intended to open up a new world of understanding for the reader.

Wisdom of the Idiots. Octagon Press. 1984.

Social Sciences

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