Author: Idries ShahPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Adventures, Facts, and Fantasy in Darkest England
Author: Idries ShahPublisher: Octagon Press, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Darkest England
Author: Idries ShahPublisher: Octagon Press Ltd
ISBN: 0863040756
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This work offers coverage of England in an anthropological sense and from the Sufi perspective.
Darkest England
Author: Idries ShahPublisher: eBook Partnership
ISBN: 1784791733
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called 'Hathaby', but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors, the English fled westward, bringing with them epic tales, traditions, and an Oriental way of thought.Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and adapting 'almost anything spiritual, moral or material' for their own use - a faculty that has transformed them from warrior nomads into successful diplomats, businessmen, thinkers and scientists.
Southern African Writing
Author: Geoffrey V. DavisPublisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051835991
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Author: Nile GreenPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324002425
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East. In the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed their assumed identities into careers full of drama and celebrity, writing dozens of books that influenced the political and cultural elite. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned picaresque travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics. Above all, father and son told Western readers what they wanted to hear: audacious yarns of eastern adventure and harmless Sufi mystics—myths that, as the century wore on and the Taliban seized power, became increasingly detached from reality. Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan follows the Shahs from their origins in colonial India to literary London, wartime Oxford, and counterculture California via the Levant, the League of Nations, and Latin America. Nile Green unravels the conspiracies and pseudonyms, fantastical pasts and self-aggrandizing anecdotes, high stakes and bold schemes that for nearly a century painted the defining portrait of Afghanistan. Ikbal and Idries convinced poets, spies, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies, and even a prime minister that they held the key to understanding the Islamic world. From George Orwell directing Muslim propaganda to Robert Graves translating a fake manuscript of Omar Khayyam and Doris Lessing supporting jihad, Green tells the fascinating tale of how the book world was beguiled by the dream of an Afghan Shangri-La that never existed. Gambling with the currency of cultural authenticity, Ikbal and Idries became master players of the great game of empire and its aftermath. Part detective story, part intellectual folly, Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan reveals the divergence between representation and reality, between what we want to believe and the more complex truth.
English Travel Writing From Pilgrimages To Postcolonial Explorations
Author: NA NAPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349624713
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Travel writing has gained new appeal, and writers from the British Isles have been particularly productive and successful in this genre. This volume provides a concise introduction to the basic characteristics and historical development of travel writing as it has emerged in the British Isles from the Middle Ages to the present day. Examples considered include many classics such as Defoe, Sterne and Smollett, Isabella Bird and Mary Kingsley, Chatwin and Raban, and also lesser known representatives. Types of travel writing discussed include pilgrims' itineraries, exploration writing, tourist accounts as well as postmodern varieties.
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