Shah’s work, while aimed at a pan-religious audience, preserves and recycles jewels of wisdom that found a place to develop themselves under the protection which the Islamic expansion that lasted for seven centuries could (and did) offer; without being an...
Writer and thinker Idries Shah has skilfully woven a wide and rich tapestry throughout his entire corpus, thus transforming literature into an invaluable source of material about the Sufi mystical tradition, their schools, teachings, poetry, and not least their...
… author, mathematician, inventor. You can check his website, here. Q: How did you become interested in Moorish designs? A: It was 1967, London, England. I was 22 years old and already a bit of a geometrician, a ‘techie,’ and an occasional civil engineer. As a...
The generous donations to the Idries Shah Foundation made it possible for us to send 32,000 books by Idries Shah and related Eastern classics to Afghanistan – where they were distributed for free to schools, universities, and public libraries. After months of...
In collaboration with ISF Publishing and the Estate of Idries Shah, The Foundation will be making all the published works of Idries Shah available online as eBooks. In addition, an archive devoted to Shah’s work and life will be put online, including video and audio...
