{"product_id":"tales-of-the-dervishes-isbn-9780140193589","title":"Tales of the Dervishes","description":"Dervish tales are more than fable, legend, or folklore. For centuries dervish masters have instructed their disciples by means of these teaching stories, which are said to increase perception and knowledge and provide a better understanding of man and the world. In wit, construction, and piquancy, they compare with the finest tales of any culture. Idries Shah spent many years traveling through three continents to collect and compare oral versions of these remarkable stories. This anthology, presented in the dervish manner, contains stories drawn from the repertories of dervish masters over a period of more than a thousand years.Tales of the DervishesPreface\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Fishes\u003cbr\u003eThe Food of Paradise\u003cbr\u003eWhen the Waters Were Changed\u003cbr\u003eThe Tale of the Sands\u003cbr\u003eThe Blind Ones and the Matter of the Elephant\u003cbr\u003eThe Dog, the Stick and the Sufi\u003cbr\u003eHow to Catch Monkeys\u003cbr\u003eThe Ancient Coffer of Nuri Bey\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Truths\u003cbr\u003eThe Sultan Who Became an Exile\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Fire\u003cbr\u003eThe Ogre and the Sufi\u003cbr\u003eThe Merchant and the Christian Dervish\u003cbr\u003eThe Golden Fortune\u003cbr\u003eThe Candlestick of Iron\u003cbr\u003eStrike on this Spot\u003cbr\u003eWhy the Clay Birds Flew Away\u003cbr\u003eThe Gnat Namouss - and the Elephant\u003cbr\u003eThe Idiot, the Wise Man, and the Jug\u003cbr\u003eThe Wayward Princess\u003cbr\u003eThe Bequest\u003cbr\u003eThe Oath\u003cbr\u003eThe Idiot in the Great City\u003cbr\u003eThe Founding of a Tradition\u003cbr\u003eFatima the Spinner and the Tent\u003cbr\u003eThe Gates of Paradise\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Was Aware of Death\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Was Easily Angered\u003cbr\u003eThe Dog and the Donkey\u003cbr\u003eCarrying Shoes\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Walked on Water\u003cbr\u003eThe Ant and the Dragonfly\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Tea\u003cbr\u003eThe King Who Decided to Be Generous\u003cbr\u003eThe Cure of Human Blood\u003cbr\u003eThe Dam\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Dervishes\u003cbr\u003eThe Four Magic Treasures\u003cbr\u003eThe Dreams and the Loaf of Bread\u003cbr\u003eBread and Jewels\u003cbr\u003eThe Limitations of Dogma\u003cbr\u003eThe Fisherman and the Genie\u003cbr\u003eThe Time, the Place and the People\u003cbr\u003eThe Parable of the Three Domains\u003cbr\u003eValuable - and Worthless\u003cbr\u003eThe Bird and the Egg\u003cbr\u003eThree Pieces of Advice\u003cbr\u003eThe Mountain Path\u003cbr\u003eThe Snake and the Peacock\u003cbr\u003eThe Water of Paradise\u003cbr\u003eThe Horseman and the Snake\u003cbr\u003eIsa and the Doubters\u003cbr\u003eIn the Street of the Perfume-Sellers\u003cbr\u003eThe Parable of the Greedy Sons\u003cbr\u003eThe Nature of Discipleship\u003cbr\u003eThe Initiation of Malik Dinar\u003cbr\u003eThe Idiot and the Browsing Camel\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Jewelled Rings\u003cbr\u003eThe Man with the Inexplicable Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Whose Time Was Wrong\u003cbr\u003eMaruf the Cobbler\u003cbr\u003eWisdom for Sale\u003cbr\u003eThe King and the Poor Boy\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Teachers and the Muleteers\u003cbr\u003eBayazid and the Selfish Man\u003cbr\u003eThe People Who Attain\u003cbr\u003eWayfarer, Strangeness and Savetime\u003cbr\u003eTimur Agha and the Speech of Animals\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Bird\u003cbr\u003eWhen Death Came to Baghdad\u003cbr\u003eThe Grammarian and the Dervish\u003cbr\u003eThe Dervish and the Princess\u003cbr\u003eThe Increasing of Necessity\u003cbr\u003eThe Man Who Looked Only at the Obvious\u003cbr\u003eHow Knowledge Was Earned\u003cbr\u003eThe Lamp Shop\u003cbr\u003eThe Chariot\u003cbr\u003eThe Lame Man and the Blind Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Servants and the House\u003cbr\u003eThe Generous Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Host and the Guests\u003cbr\u003eThe King's Son\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Authors and teachers, in chronological order\u003cb\u003eIdries Shah \u003c\/b\u003ewas an author and teacher in the Sufi tradition who wrote dozens of books on topics ranging from psychology to spiritualilty to travelogues to other anthropological studies. In his writings, Shah presented Sufism as a universal form of wisdom that predated Islam. Shah is known for \u003ci\u003eThe Sufis\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Commanding Self\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Subleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Thinkers of the East\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLearning How to Learn. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303519637733,"sku":"NP9780140193589","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140193589.jpg?v=1767737755","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tales-of-the-dervishes-isbn-9780140193589","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}