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ADVENTURES IN AFGHANISTAN
Louis Palmer

AFGHAN CARAVAN
Assembled by Safia Shah
Collected by Idries Shah

AFGHANISTAN OF THE AFGHANS
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

ALONE IN ARABIAN NIGHTS
Sirdar Ikbar Ali Shah

AMONG THE DERVISHES
Omar Michael Burke

ARABIAN FAIRY TALES
Retold by Amina Shah

THE ASSEMBLIES OF AL-HARIRI
Retold by Amina Shah

THE BOOK OF ECSTASY
The Halnama of Arifi
Translated by R. S. Greenshields

THE BOOK OF THE BOOK
Idries Shah

CARAVAN OF DREAMS
Idries Shah

THE COMMANDING SELF
Idries Shah

CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
Essays on diverse cultures now and in the past

Edited by Robert Cecil and David Wade

CULTURAL RESEARCH
Papers by and for The Institute for Cultural Research on Regional Cultures and Culture-Mixing

Edited by Tahir Shah

DARKEST ENGLAND
Idries Shah

THE DERMIS PROBE
Idries Shah

THE DERVISHES OF TURKEY
Lucy M.J. Garnett
with a foreword by Omar M. Burke

DOCUMENTS ON CONTEMPORARY DERVISH COMMUNITIES
A Symposium

compiled by Roy Weaver Davidson

THE ELEPHANT IN THE DARK
Christianity, Islam and The Sufis

Idries Shah

THE ENGLISHMAN'S HANDBOOK
Idries Shah

ESCAPE FROM CENTRAL ASIA
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

EVENINGS WITH IDRIES SHAH
Sufi Discussions

Collected by R. Easterling and Kamil Hanafy

THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE MULLA NASRUDIN AND THE SUBTLETIES OF THE INIMITABLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

FIRST AMONG SUFIS
Life and Thought of Rabia al-Adawiyya

Widad El Sakkakini
Introduction by Doris Lessing

A FOOL OF GOD
Mystical Verse of Baba Tahir
Persian Text, with translation by Edward Heron-Allen

FOUR SUFI CLASSICS
Jami's Salaman and Absal translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Al-Ghazzali's The Niche for Lights translated by W.H.T. Gairdner
Hakim Sanai's The Way of the Seeker and Jami's The Abode of Spring
Translated and abridged by Da

A GLOSSARY OF SUFI TECHNICAL TERMS
Compiled by Abd al-Razzaq al-Qashani
Translated from the Arabic by Nabil Safwat
Revised and edited by David Pendlebury
Includes facsimile of original Arabic text.

THE GOLDEN CARAVAN
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

THE HUNDRED TALES OF WISDOM
Life, Teachings and Miracles of Jalaludin Rumi from Aflaki's 'Munaquib,' together with certain important stories from Rumi's works, traditionally known as 'The Hundred Tales of Wisdom'

Translated from the Persian and presented by Idries Shah

HYPNOTISM EAST AND WEST
Twenty Hypnotic Methods, Summaries of Techniques and Hypnotism Among the Arabs

R.J. Chester

ICR NO. 1 - VICO'S THEORY OF THE CAUSES OF HISTORICAL CHANGE
Leon Pompa

ICR NO. 2 - SOME UNUSUAL ASPECTS OF COMMUNICATION
Edward Campbell

ICR NO. 5 - EDUCATION AND ELITISM IN NAZI GERMANY
Robert Cecil CMG

ICR NO. 6 - CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
Robert Cecil CMG

ICR NO. 7 - THE SOKODAE: A WEST AFRICAN DANCE
Dr. Drid Williams

ICR NO. 8 - MY YEARS WITH THE ARABS
General Sir John Glubb, KCB

ICR NO. 9 - SOME EFFECTS OF MUSIC
Prof. D. B. Fry

ICR NO. 10 - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE
Dr. Alexander King, CMG, CBE

ICR NO. 11 - PHYSIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Prof. Robert Ornstein

ICR NO. 12 - PURPOSES OF EDUCATION
Dr. F. D. Rushworth, Prof. K. R. Minogue and Lord Wolfenden

ICR NO. 16 - EAST AND WEST, TODAY AND YESTERDAY
By various authors

ICR NO. 17 - SCIENCE AND THE PARANORMAL
Leonard Lewin, DSc

ICR NO. 18 - SUFIC TRACES IN GEORGIAN LITERATURE
Katharine Vivian

ICR NO. 19 - REMBRANDT AND ANGELS
Michael Rubinstein

ICR NO. 21 - THE AGE OF ANXIETY: A REASSESSMENT
Malcolm Lader

ICR NO. 23 - THE HEALING WITHIN: MEDICINE, HEALTH AND WHOLENESS
Robin Price

ICR NO. 24 - A CLASH OF CULTURES
The Malaysian Experience

David Widdicombe, QC

ICR NO. 25 - EVALUATING SPIRITUAL AND UTOPIAN GROUPS
Arthur J. Deikman, MD

ICR NO. 27 - CULTS IN 19TH CENTURY BRITAIN
Robert Cecil CMG

ICR NO. 28 - BLACK CULTURE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN COLOMBIA
Peter Wade

ICR NO. 29 - URBAN LEGENDS AND THE JAPANESE TALE
David Schaefer

ICR NO. 30 - THE ROLE OF 'PRIMITIVE' PEOPLE IN IDENTIFYING AND APPROACHING HUMAN PROBLEMS

ICR NO. 31 - THE USE OF OMENS, MAGIC, AND SORCERY FOR POWER AND HUNTING

ICR NO. 32 - RITUAL FROM THE STONE AGE TO THE PRESENT DAY

ICR NO. 34 - CULTURAL IDENTITY: SOLUTION OR PROBLEM?
Peter Wade

ICR NO. 35 - INVENTIONS AND INVENTING: FINDING SOLUTIONS TO PRACTICAL PROBLEMS
Kevin Byron

ICR NO. 36 - PROBLEMS, MYTHS AND STORIES
Doris Lessing

ICR NO. 37 - MODERN PRIMITIVES
The Recurrent Ritual of Adornment


ICR NO. 39 - THE MARKETING OF CHRISTIANITY
The Evolution of Early Christian Doctrine


ICR NO. 40 - THE PRESS GANG
The World of Journalese

Philip Howard

ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
M. Saeed Sheikh

JORGE LUIS BORGES: SOURCES AND ILLUMINATION
G. de Garayalde

THE JOURNEY OF THE SOUL
The Story of Hai bin Yaqzan

Abu bakr Muhammed bin Tufail
Translated by Dr. R. Kocache

JOURNEYS WITH A SUFI MASTER
Bashir M. Dervish
edited by A.L. Griffiths

THE KASIDAH
of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi

Sir Richard Burton

KNOWING HOW TO KNOW
Idries Shah

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Idries Shah

LETTERS AND LECTURES OF IDRIES SHAH
Compiled and Edited by Adam Musa

THE LIFE AND WORK OF JALALUDDIN RUMI
Afzal Iqbal, Ph.D.
with a foreword by A.J. Arberry

THE MAGIC MONASTERY
Idries Shah

THE MIDDLE EAST BEDSIDE BOOK
Edited by Tahir Shah
Selected by Idries Shah

MY KHYBER MARRIAGE
Morag Murray Abdullah

MY LIFE -- FROM BRIGAND TO KING
Autobiography of Amir Habibullah

Amir Habibullah

THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS
Idries Shah

THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS MAN
Institute for Cultural Research
edited by D.B. Fry

NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF SUFI STUDY
Idries Shah

NEW RESEARCH ON CURRENT PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
Various Authors

OBSERVATIONS BY IDRIES SHAH
Collected by Lindsi Tarabdar and Zoltan E. Na'lbandev

ORIENTAL MAGIC
Idries Shah
foreword by Louis Marin

ORIENTAL MYSTICISM
Nasafi's Remotest Aim

Presented by E. H. Palmer

THE PEOPLE OF THE SECRET
Ernest Scott
with an introduction by Colin Wilson

A PERFUMED SCORPION The Way to the Way
Idries Shah

THE PLEASANTRIES OF THE INCREDIBLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE QUATRAINS OF KHALILULLAH KHALILI
Khalilullah Khalili

REFLECTIONS
Idries Shah

THE RELIGION OF THE SUFIS
Translated from The Dabistan

David Shea and Anthony Troyer
Introduction by Idries Shah

REVELATION OF THE SECRETS OF THE BIRDS AND FLOWERS
Al-Muqaddasi
Translated by Irene Hoare and Darya Galy
Edited by Denise Winn

THE ROSE GARDEN
Sheikh Muslihu-d-Din Saadi of Shiraz
translated by Edward R. Eastwick

THE SACRED KNOWLEDGE
The Altaf al-Quds of Shah Waliullah
Translated by G.N. Jalbani and David Pendlebury

THE SECRET GARDEN
of Mahmud Shabistari

Translated by Johnson Pasha

SEEKER AFTER TRUTH
A Handbook

Idries Shah

SELECTIONS FROM THE KORAN
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

SPECIAL ILLUMINATION
The Sufi Use of Humor

Idries Shah

THE SPIRIT OF THE EAST
The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah

THE SUBTLETIES OF THE INIMITABLE MULLA NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE SUFI MYSTERY
with writings by Sir Richard Burton, Robert Graves, Idries Shah and others
Edited by N.P. Archer

SUFI THOUGHT AND ACTION
Assembled by Idries Shah

THE SUFIS
Idries Shah

SUFISM AND THE ISLAMIC TRADITION
The Lamahat and Sata'at of Shah Waliullah of Delhi

Translated by J.N. Jalbani
Edited by D.B. Fry

THE TALE OF THE FOUR DERVISHES
Of Amir Khusru

Retold by Amina Shah

TALES FROM THE BAZAARS
Amina Shah

TALES OF AFGHANISTAN
Retold by Amina Shah

TALES OF THE DERVISHES
Teaching-stories of Sufi Masters over the past thousand years

Idries Shah

TEACHINGS OF RUMI (MASNAVI I MA'NAVI)
The Spiritual Couplets of Jalaludin Rumi

Translated and abridged by E. H. Whinfield
with an introduction by Idries Shah

THEORIES, PRACTICES & TRAINING SYSTEMS OF A SUFI SCHOOL
Canon W. H. T. Gairdner

THINKERS OF THE EAST
Idries Shah

TRAVELS IN THE UNKNOWN EAST
John Grant

THE TREATISE OF THE POOL
Al-Mawala al-Hawdiyya

Obadya Maimonides
Translated by Paul Fenton

VALLEY OF THE GIANT BUDDHAS
Memoirs and Travel

Morag Murray Abdullah

VISITS TO SUFI CENTRES
Some Recent Research Papers on Sufis and Sufism

Various Authors

THE WALLED GARDEN OF TRUTH The Hadiqa of Hakim Sanai
Translated and abridged by D.L. Pendlebury

THE WAY OF THE SUFI
Idries Shah

WISDOM OF THE IDIOTS
Idries Shah

THE WORLD OF NASRUDIN
Idries Shah

THE WORLD OF THE SUFI
Introduction by Idries Shah
Edited by Peter Brent

WORLD TALES
Idries Shah

YUSUF AND ZULAIKHA
Hakim Nuruddin Abdurrahman Jami
translated and edited by David Pendlebury