The Exploit from The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

From Idries Shah’s The Mulla Nasrudin Corpus More stories Buy now The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read, enjoyed and shared by children, scientists, scholars and followers of philosophy the world over. Idries Shah assembled perhaps the largest collection of Nasrudin’s trials and tribulations … Read More

Costly from The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin

From Idries Shah’s The Mulla Nasrudin Corpus More stories Buy now The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read, enjoyed and shared by children, scientists, scholars and followers of philosophy the world over. Idries Shah assembled perhaps the largest collection of Nasrudin’s trials and tribulations … Read More

The Riddles from World Tales

From the Idries Shah Selected Folktales and Their Background More stories Buy now Once upon a time – in 1979 to be exact – Idries Shah published a remarkable volume of 65 stories, entitled World Tales. He had collected them from around the world – some from ancient sources, others from contemporary ones. Yet they all shared one … Read More

The Answer from The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

From Idries Shah’s The Mulla Nasrudin Corpus More stories Buy now The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read, enjoyed and shared by children, scientists, scholars and followers of philosophy the world over. Idries Shah assembled perhaps the largest collection of Nasrudin’s trials and tribulations … Read More

The Travelling Companion from World Tales

From the Idries Shah Selected Folktales and Their Background More stories Buy now Once upon a time – in 1979 to be exact – Idries Shah published a remarkable volume of 65 stories, entitled World Tales. He had collected them from around the world – some from ancient sources, others from contemporary ones. Yet they all shared one … Read More

Idries Shah, Sufism and the Literary World

The following is a translation into English of an article which appeared in the Culturas supplement of the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia on 20 October 2018. You can read the article in Spanish here. ‘I am a writer who is not writing. I am not sure why.’ It’s 26 January 1972. An american author sits down to write … Read More