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The Idries Shah Foundation and HoopoeShare Literacy collaborate to donate children’s books
Sharing stories: ISF donates books for a spellbinding event
Author: Lou Temlett
Scheherazade Foundation’s event to mark the first anniversary of the World Story Bank
Saira Shah, ISF trustee, with Her Majesty, Queen Camilla
Exhibition of Guadameci Leather Art by Jorge Centofanti
Exhibition of Guadameci Leather Art by Jorge Centofanti, from the 3rd to the 28th November 2025. All proceeds to be donated to The Idries Shah Foundation.
IDRIES SHAH’S CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY – Latest Article
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.
Borges: An interview with Giovanna Comani
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’S CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY – Article 1
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.
Happy New Year 2025 – A message from Saira Shah
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
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
ISF collaborates with UNESCO Associated Schools Network
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.
Idries Shah was born 100 years ago
A hundred years ago – on 16th June 1924 – Sayed Idries Shah was born in Shimla, India.