Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin

Idries Shah

Description

Many countries claim Nasrudin as a native, although few have gone so far as Turkey in exhibiting a 'grave' of the wisest fool who ever lived, and holding an annual Nasrudin Festival. He is the greatest, most intriguing, character of folklore found in any Eastern land. Versions of his back-to-front thinking can be found in Morocco, Egypt and Russia, in Turkey, Greece, Albania and Afghanistan. Since Idries Shah made Nasrudin's genius available to mainstream Western readers three decades ago, people from every walk of life have laughed at and learned from the wise fool's inimitable escapades.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy

Informations

• Publié par: ISF Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 août 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781784791469
• Langue: English

Extrait

The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin


Idries Shah
Contents



Acknowledgments


1. Saying of Mulla Nasrudin

2. Saying of Mulla Nasrudin

3. Radio

4. Where There’s a Will

5. I Might Do You a Favour

6. Needs

7. The End of the World

8. A Bite

9. Gossip

10. Satisfied

11. Costly

12. Problems of Loneliness

13. Arabic Scholar

14. The Problems of Delay

15. The Forester

16. It Takes One to Know One

17. Get the Facts Straight

18. Cow with Calf

19. Let’s Have It Every Day

20. The Value of the Man

21. Clearing the Matter Up

22. Hold That Wolf

23. Miracles Have Details

24. The Water Shortage

25. Wife and Secretary

26. How to Keep It Going

27. Cooking

28. Must Be One of Them

29. Mistaken Identity

30. What’s Left

31. The True and the False

32. First Time

33. Tried to Fool Him

34. Diversion

35. The Marsh

36. How to Get out of Trouble

37. What Could Become What

38. Large and Small

39. Watch Out!

40. They Don’t Work

41. Stop-Go

42. Temperatures

43. Time

44. Feedback

45. Psychology

46. When to Do What

47. The Speed-Traveller

48. It Depends How You Look at It

49. Warning

50. Don’t Jump to Conclusions

51. Smooth Trees

52. Two for One

53. Myself

54. One Man’s Meat

55. Salute

56. The Clock

57. Not a Good Pupil

58. Ethological Reflection

59. Quality and Quantity

60. Social Conscience

61. Bath Song

62. Wife, Thief and Donkey

63. How Much?

64. The Election Meeting

65. That’s Why They Appreciate It

66. A Reason for Everything

67. What You Hadn’t Thought Of

68. Motive Power

69. The Right Requirements

70. Camel Fodder

71. Tyranny of the Majority

72. A Matter of Language

73. Too Late

74. Memory

75. A Hundred Years

76. Nine Donkeys

77. I Only Hope I’m Ill

78. The Illness of My Wife

79. Donkey Lost

80. Freakish

81. The Company’s Time

82. Grey and White

83. Esoteric

84. Automation

85. Names

86. The Chalk

87. Lost Property

88. So Hot

89. Is It Me?

90. Ambition

91. Copyist

92. No Relative

93. Service

94. Shoes

95. Two Halves

96. Problem of Communication

97. The Trip

98. The Same Strength

99. Second Thoughts

100. How to Catch Nasrudin

101. The Will of Allah