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  • Tales of the Dervishes

  • By: Idries Shah
  • Narrated by: David Ault
  • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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By: Idries Shah
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Summary

Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend, or folklore.

They stand comparison in wit, construction, and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe them.

The material in Tales of the Dervishes is the result of a thousand years of development, during which Dervish masters used these and other teaching stories to instruct their disciples. The tales are held to convey powers of increasing perception unknown to the ordinary man.
©1967 The Estate of Idries Shah (P)2017 Idries Shah Foundation
Eastern Religion & Spirituality Sufism
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