The Middle East bedside book / edited by Tahir Shah ; [selected by Idries Shah].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Octagon, 1991.Description: vi, 287 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0863040357
  • 9780863040351
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Middle East bedside book.DDC classification:
  • 956.053 20
LOC classification:
  • DS57 .S43 1991
Other classification:
  • 74.21
  • 18.05
Contents:
Travellers' tales --. Baksheesh for the Englishman -- Pasha speaks -- Travel notes -- Letters from Morocco -- English through eastern eyes -- Tourists and missionaries.
Through other eyes --. Through eastern eyes -- Arabia in Europe -- Tales; eastern or western? -- Girl who had seven divs for brothers -- Treaty between France and Turkey -- Moslem art in Europe -- Middle East facts and fallacies I.
The Prophet --. Prophet Mohammed -- Sayings of the prophet Mohammed I -- Password and the builders.
Eastern customs-Western travellers --. Greetings and salutations -- Middle East business -- Skiving in the sun -- Popularity through proverbs -- Lokman the wise -- Problems of language -- Meeting and mingling -- Merchant and the Frankish wife -- History of the adventurer -- Sufi mystics of the west -- Dreams, derivations -- Arab occult writers; their effect on Europe.
Psychology --. Psychology -- Hammam name -- Magic of numbers.
Chivalry and teachers --. Chivalry -- Joha the joker -- Indirect teaching -- Armenian lore -- Yes, your highness -- Assemblies of Al-Hariri -- Middle East facts and fallacies II.
Rituals and human nature --. Strange ritual in Tunisia -- Human nature -- Fools -- Charms and pearls -- More East/West encounters; Idries Shah -- Kings, crooks and caliphs -- Music and other diversions -- Customs and social habits -- Afterwards a sherbet.
Wisdom and honour --. Words of the sages -- Honour -- Sayings of the Prophet Mohammed -- Generosity is sacred -- Wisdom of women -- Sufi wise ones.
Item type: BOOK
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Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library STACKS DS57 .S43 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) V. Copy 1 Available 197010003

First ed. (1983) had Idries Shah on t.p.; here her name is from jacket ("selected by Idries Shah").

Travellers' tales --. Baksheesh for the Englishman -- Pasha speaks -- Travel notes -- Letters from Morocco -- English through eastern eyes -- Tourists and missionaries.

Through other eyes --. Through eastern eyes -- Arabia in Europe -- Tales; eastern or western? -- Girl who had seven divs for brothers -- Treaty between France and Turkey -- Moslem art in Europe -- Middle East facts and fallacies I.

The Prophet --. Prophet Mohammed -- Sayings of the prophet Mohammed I -- Password and the builders.

Eastern customs-Western travellers --. Greetings and salutations -- Middle East business -- Skiving in the sun -- Popularity through proverbs -- Lokman the wise -- Problems of language -- Meeting and mingling -- Merchant and the Frankish wife -- History of the adventurer -- Sufi mystics of the west -- Dreams, derivations -- Arab occult writers; their effect on Europe.

Psychology --. Psychology -- Hammam name -- Magic of numbers.

Chivalry and teachers --. Chivalry -- Joha the joker -- Indirect teaching -- Armenian lore -- Yes, your highness -- Assemblies of Al-Hariri -- Middle East facts and fallacies II.

Rituals and human nature --. Strange ritual in Tunisia -- Human nature -- Fools -- Charms and pearls -- More East/West encounters; Idries Shah -- Kings, crooks and caliphs -- Music and other diversions -- Customs and social habits -- Afterwards a sherbet.

Wisdom and honour --. Words of the sages -- Honour -- Sayings of the Prophet Mohammed -- Generosity is sacred -- Wisdom of women -- Sufi wise ones.