This book is a collection of talks given by Omar Ali Shah to study groups throughout the world during the eighties. After describing how the Sufi Tradition functions over the time span of many generations, Omar Ali Shah draws a clear and lucid picture of what is required both from a student and from a teacher in this tradition, and then goes into the various traits of character and circumstance which one develops in order to be able to implement the transformation of the self that is the basis of Sufism. The approach adopted here is based on simplicity and common sense, and even if one has no particular interests in the Sufi Tradition as such, this is a book which can help one deal usefully with various pressures and conditioning a person is subjected to in the course of contemporary life.

Sufism for Today

Politics & Social Sciences

Omar Ali-Shah

Philosophy

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Watching the Wound: A Patchwork Novel

Literature & Fiction

Hayter, Augy

Contemporary

Sufism As Therapy

Ali-Shah, Omar

Muhammed: The Prophet

Ikbal Ali-Shah

Biographies & Memoirs

Ever since its first publication in 1988, this book has become recognized as a major document in 20th C Sufism, being one of the first books in which one can actually witness the process of a spiritual teaching taking place. What we have is a series of edited transcripts of a Sufi teacher talking to his pupils and laying down a baseline of references that can be incorporated into our own way of thinking, assuming we choose to do so. Just as his father Ikbal Ali Shah and his brother Idries Shah produced a body of literature, Omar Ali-Shah has produced a body of documents which reconcile our own disturbed and anguished epoch with a way of thinking and teaching that has existed since the dawn of mankind.

The Course of the Seeker

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

The Rose Garden (Gulistan) of Saadi

Poetry

The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah says 'The modern world stands in need of biological renewal. And religion, which in its higher manifestations is neither dogma, nor priesthood, nor ritual, can alone ethically prepare the modern man for the burden of the great responsibility which the advancement of modern science necessarily involves, and restore to him that attitudes of faith which makes him capable of winning a personality here and retaining it hereafter.' Islamic Sufism is possibly the best book ever written on its subject. It gives a clear and uncluttered pictures of both Islam and Sufism, stating exactly what the difference between Sufism and orthodox religiois, and also presents a complete genealogy of its most important teachers and communicators from the Prophet Muhammed onwards. He discusses Sufism's compatibility with modern philosophy

Islamic Sufism

Ali Shah, Sirdar Ikbal

The Rules or Secrets of the Naqshbandi Order

Lights of Asia

Ali Shah, The Sirdar Ikbal

The Woman I Love: Poems on Womankind

Augy Hayter

History & Criticism

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