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  • About
    • About The Idries Shah Foundation
    • Who was Idries Shah?
    • ISF Today
    • Traditional Psychology
    • What is Sufism?
    • The Incredible Nasrudin
  • Who’s Who at ISF
  • Read Shah for Free
    • The Idries Shah Anthology
    • Sufi Studies and Middle Eastern Literature
    • Traditional Psychology
    • Children’s Books
    • University Lectures
    • Current and Traditional Ideas
    • The Mulla Nasrudin Corpus
    • Travel and Exploration
    • Studies in Minority Beliefs
    • Selected Folktales and Their Background
    • A Novel
    • Sociological Works
    • The Hundred Tales of Wisdom
    • Spanish Translations
    • Dari Translations
    • Farsi Translations
    • Turkish Translations
  • Blog
  • Our Projects
    • Publishing
    • Children’s Books project
    • Middle East & Asian Translations
    • Spanish Translations
    • ISF-UNESCO Story Competition
  • Stories of the Day
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Explore the largest collection of Sufi literature and teaching-stories in the world

Explore the largest collection of Sufi literature and teaching-stories in the world

For over 40 years, Shah collected and published centuries of Sufi literature, and offered an interpretation of this invaluable resource uniquely framed for our time

We publish timeless, beautifully-illustrated stories for children

We publish timeless, beautifully-illustrated stories for children

‘These stories…nurture a part of the mind that is unreachable in more direct ways…’
– Robert Ornstein, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

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