clipped from: www.ponderabout.com Idries Shah was an Afghan-born Sufi scholar and
author whose many books have brought Sufism
to the attention of the West
the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia defines Sufism
as, “a mystical movement within Islam that seeks to
find divine love and knowledge through direct
personal experience of God.”
among Shah’s works are three volumes of Sufi
teaching stories that feature the mythological
Mulla Nasrudin - a wise fool whose humorous
exploits are the subject of thousands of stories
Shah describes them as, “perfectly designed models
for isolating and holding distortions of the mind which
so often pass for reasonable behavior.”