Idries Shah maintained that, for a Western audience, Sufi ideas are better presented within psychology than religion. Read the latest article in Saira Shah’s series looking at this startling claim.
An interview with Giovanna Comani, on April 2, 2025, the author of Jorge Luis Borges: Sources and Illumination, (Octagon Press, 1978, written under her surname by marriage, Giovanna de Garayalde).
Idries Shah maintained that, for a Western audience, Sufi ideas are better presented within psychology than religion. In the first of a series of articles, Saira Shah takes a look at this startling claim.
I wanted to make this update a little bit more personal than we’ve done before. It seems important, in what would have been Idries Shah’s hundred and first year, to put my name beside my words to show that there is family continuity in all that we do.
Children’s books for Kenya In another collaboration with Kashfi’s Children, ISF has distributed over 200 children’s books to young people in need in Ukunda, Kenya. Schools, libraries and children’s homes in the area are in desperate need of quality books in English. Our beautifully illustrated stories were received by a local preacher Matano Mungoma. He … Read More
As one of what we hope to be many new collaborations with other distributors of Idries Shah’s work, ISF has supplied Shah’s children’s books to head teachers from several UNESCO registered UK schools.
A hundred years ago – on 16th June 1924 – Sayed Idries Shah was born in Shimla, India.
Sufi Studies: East and West contains a wealth of information about Sufis and their special practices from a diversity of cultures and viewpoints. In 1973, a major symposium was held in honor of Idries Shah’s work in the area of Sufi studies. This corresponded with the 700th anniversary of the death of the Persian Sufi … Read More
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ISF is incredibly proud to announce the publication of six new children’s books featuring teaching-stories selected from the works of Idries Shah. Edited by Safia Shah, these titles are illustrated in fresh, contemporary styles by award-winning illustrators from around the world, including Prashant Miranda and Zainab Faidhi. You can own all six titles in hardback … Read More
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