CARAVAN OF DREAMS

Idries Shah

Octagon Press, London, 1978

A colorful caravan of Eastern oral and written literature, this collection includes many best-known Sufi teaching-stories including The Story of Mushkil Gusha, The Magic Horse, and The Two Brothers. A favorite gift book.

Audio readings are also found in 'Learning From Stories,' Code LEST1.

In one of the best tales of the Arabian Nights, Maruf the Cobbler found himself daydreaming his own fabulous caravan of riches.
Destitute and almost friendless in an alien land, Maruf at first mentally conceived -- and then described -- an unbelievably valuable cargo on its way to him.
Instead of leading to exposure and disgrace, this idea was the foundation of his eventual success. The imagined caravan took shape, became real for a time -- and arrived.
May your caravan of dreams, too, find its way to you.
--From the Preface of Caravan of Dreams © 1978 by The Estate of Idries Shah

Trust in God -- but tie your camel first.
--Sayings of the Prophet, Caravan of Dreams © 1978 by The Estate of Idries Shah

'Like the marvelous dream landscapes you entered as a child.'
-- The Listener

'Beguiling, with near-biblical majesty: resonates at a deep subconscious level.'
-- Evening News

'These stories adhere, return, seeming somehow to expand into an area beyond outer consciousness. Like fine poems -- like great poems -- more than rewarding and impossible to forget.'
-- Tribune