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‘Perhaps the best introduction to the body of Shah’s work, the most comprehensively informative. And one is immediately forced to use one’s mind in a new way.’
The New York Times
‘A seminal book of the century.’
The Washington Post
The New York Times
‘A seminal book of the century.’
The Washington Post
When it first appeared in 1964, The Sufis was welcomed as the
decisive work on the subject: rich in scope, clearly explaining the traditions
and philosophy of the Sufis to a Western audience for the first time. In the
four decades since its release, the book has been translated into more than a
dozen languages, and has found a wide readership in both East and West. It is
used as a text in scores of leading universities around the world, and the
material contained within it has been applied by psychologists and physicists,
by school teachers, lawyers, social workers, and by ordinary members of the
public. Ted Hughes wrote of it: ‘An astonishing book. The Sufis must be the
biggest society of sensible men on earth’; and Doris Lessing said of it: ‘I had
waited my entire life to read this book.’