from The Idries Shah Foundation:
Tales of the Dervishes
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.
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