The Middle East bedside book / edited by Tahir Shah ; [selected by Idries Shah].
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Octagon, 1991.Description: vi, 287 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0863040357
- 9780863040351
- 956.053 20
- DS57 .S43 1991
- 74.21
- 18.05
Current library | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library STACKS | DS57 .S43 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | V. | Copy 1 | Available | 197010003 |
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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.