Tales of the Dervishes

De: Idries Shah

Narrado por: David Ault

Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend, or folklore.

They stand comparison in wit, construction, and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known in the modern world, that no technical or popular terms exist to describe them.

The material in Tales of the Dervishes is the result of a thousand years of development, during which Dervish masters used these and other teaching stories to instruct their disciples. The tales are held to convey powers of increasing perception unknown to the ordinary man.

©1967 The Estate of Idries Shah (P)2017 Idries Shah Foundation

So much value

Pure knowledge, unfiltered, fun. Listening to the narrator changing his voice when voicing bottle genies has got to be the most fun and joy I’ve had when listening to short stories since I was a kid

A Spiritual Gift!

Each story is so dense you could spend a life time working your way through this collection. It is a great collection to study with friends.

Very well done on all levels

Play, stop, consider, contemplate, meditate, think, decide, switch perspectives, and repeat this three times then hit play. Repeat

ancient wisdom rediscovered

the stories in this book are timeless. they provide advice now as they provided a 1000 yr ago

Stories that can be a companion for a lifetime

Over the years I have returned to this book many times. The stories seem so simple. I have read this book 3 times over the years. Each time I revisit this book I often see a new meaning to the stories. Today I bought the audio recording of it because I have eyesight problems, I was worried that having a reader between the book and me the subtleties might be lost. But the narrator, David Ault did a wonderful job. He was able to retain the depth of these stories in a soft way that makes the content of the stories front and center. David Ault has done the audio recordings of all of Shahs major books.
Give them a try, you will never forget them even though they may seem simple and subtle.