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From: tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com (haramullah)
Subject: ToC for _The Way of the Sufi_ (Shah, LONG)
Date: 13 Sep 1997 03:05:43 -0700

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assalam alaykum, my kin.
                
     [a complete Table of Contents for _The Way of the Sufi_, by Idries Shah;
          Arkana Books, 1990; by haramullah (tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com)]
                
INTRODUCTION
                
Part One: THE STUDY OF SUFISM IN THE WEST
        Theories about Sufism
        Limitations of Contemporary Approaches to Sufism
        Verification of the Literary Materials by Direct Contact with Sufism
        Misunderstanding of Sufi Ideas and Formulations
        Forms of Sufi Activity
        Difficulties in Understanding Sufi Materials
        Notes and Bibliography


Part Two: CLASSICAL AUTHORS
                
        1. El-Ghazali
                Ghazali on the Path
                The Difference between Social and Initiatory Activity
                Parable of People with a Higher Aim
                The Three Functions of the Perfected Man
                Attraction of Celebrities
                The Nature of Divine Knowledge
                Love and Self-Interest
                You Must be Prepared
                Ignorance
                Ceremonies of Music and Movement
                The Sterile Woman
                The Dance
                A Quality must have a Vehicle
                The Idiot Self
                Man was made for Learning
                The Price of Knowledge
                Possessions
                Gain and Loss
                
        2. Omar Khayyam
                The Secret
                Mankind
                Seeds like These
                The Enemy of Faith
                Meditations
                Under the Earth
                Man
                Do Not Go Empty-Handed
                I Am
                
        3. Attar of Nishapur
                An Answer of Jesus
                The Heart
                On Being Offered an Unacceptable Donation
                The Tale of Fazl -Rabbi
                The Slave Without a Master
                The Magic Box
                The Moon
                The Five Hundred Gold Pieces
                The Madman and the Muezzin
                The Religious Framework
                A Story of Moses
                Souls Before the Creation of the Holy
                The Test
                About Mohammad, Son of Isa
                The Perception of the Madman
                The Miser and the Angel of Death
                The Donkey's Head
                Absurdity and Ignorance
                Light
                Christians and Muslims
                The Tree Unaware of its State
                The Arrow
                King Mahmud and the Beans
                Unaware
                The Madman and the Wrestler
                The Two Rings
                This, Too, Will Pass
                The King Who Divined His Future
                This Space
                
        4. Ibn El-Arabi
                Whence Came the Title?
                The Vision at Mosul
                The Three Forms of Knowledge
                Truth
                A Higher Love
                The Special Love
                Attainments of a Teacher
                The Face of Religion
                My Heart Can Take on Any Appearance
                Study by Analogy
                The Man who Knows
                Straying From the Path
                
        5. Saadi of Shiraz
                The Door
                Jewels and Dust
                The Day of Battle
                The Alchemist and the Fool
                The Pearl
                Dominion
                The Thief and the Blanket
                Learning
                The Unshaped One
                Scholars and Recluses
                The Scorpion
                The Ark
                The Destiny of a Wolf-Cub
                The Barren Tree
                Conceit
                The Straight Path
                Cages
                Butting
                A Tree Freshly Rooted
                Doing Good to the Evil
                Reward
                To Know One's Faults
                The Alternatives
                The Unfed Dervish
                Asleep and Awake
                The Harvest
                Relative
                Information and Knowledge
                The Elephant-Keeper
                The Dervish under a Vow of Solitude
                Safety and Riches
                The Fox and the Camels
                Gold Coins called Nobles
                Talk
                Disciples and Sages
                Horse and Camel
                Where the Leopard May Lurk
                The Foundation of Tyranny
                If You Cannot Stand a Sting
                Ambition
                The Danger of Ecstasy
                The Dervish and the Camel Rider
                The Sick Man
                The Dervish in Hell
                Heedless Man
                The Tiger's Prey
                The Fool and the Donkey
                The Road
                
        6. Hakim Jami
                Luxuriant Growth
                Unity
                The Prayer and the Nose
                The Teacher
                Love
                The Dry Cloud
                The Poet and the Physician
                The Beggar
                Hypocrisy
                Pride
                Intellect
                What Shall We Do
                The State
                The Heaviest Wave
                
        7. Hakim Sanai
                Man Asleep
                The Sealed Book
                Levels of Truth
                Means and End
                The Infant
                How and Why
                Follow the Path
                
        8. Jalaludin Rumi
                How Far You Have Come!
                The Way
                The Four Men and the Intepreter
                I am the Life of My Beloved
                The Owls and the King's Hawk
                Another Dimension
                Profiting by Experience
                Awakening
                He was in No Other Place
                Those Who Know, Cannot Tell
                Joha and Death
                Intelligence and Real Perception
                True Reality
                The Human Spirit
                Detachment Brings Perceptions
                Thou and I
                Two Reeds
                What Shall I Be
                The Man of God
                Truth
                The Science
                Dust on the Mirror
                Action and Words
                Work
                The House
                Owls
                Efforts
                Seeking
                Thin Task
                The Community of Love
                A Book
                Epitaph of Jalaludin Rumi
                
                
Part Three: FOUR MAJOR ORDERS

        1. Chishti
                Cause and Effect
                The Garden
                The Group of Sufis
                When Death is Not Death
                The Spare Room
                The Seven Brothers
                Camel's Eye View
                The Oath
                'The Sufi is a Liar'
                On Music
                How Man Raises Himself Higher
                The Mystery of the Sufis
                
        2. Qadiri
                The Rose of Baghdad
                The Vine
                The Teacher and the Dog
                States and Jackals
                The Horrid Dib-Dib
                The Thief, the Shopkeeper and the Law
                Help His Friends
                The Pay and the Work
                The Plant
                Th Transmission of *Baraka*
                
                
        3. Suhrawardi
                Ben Yusuf the Carpenter
                The Girl Who Came Back from the Dead
                The Parable of the Host and the Guests
                Astrology
                Saying of Sheikh Ziaudin
                Three Candidates
                That Makes Me Think of...
                
                
        4. Naqshbandi
                How the Order Came Into Being
                Three Visits to a Sage
                One Way of Teaching
                The Successor
                The Most Ancient Masters
                Why I Did That
                Indirect Teaching
                The Air of Qasr-El-Arifin
                Bahaudin's Answers
                The Sufi Who Called Himself a Dog
                Cherished Notions
                Naqshbandi Recital
                Sentences of the Khajagan
                Miracles and Tricks
                Liability
                Falsity
                Studies and Caravans
                The Inner Exercises
                On Your Religion
                The Palace of the Enlightened
                
                
Part Four: AMONG THE MASTERS
        A Meeting with Khidr
        Hasan of Basra
        What Man Really Knows (Juzjani)
        Sufian Thauri (Ghazali)
        Sin (Sufian Thauri)
        Man Must be in the Correct State
        Bayazid Bistami
        Class (Ibn el-Mubarak)
        Names (Zabardast Khan)
        Bayazid Bistami
        Service (Rabia el-Adawia)
        To be a Believer (attributed to Ali)
        The Blacksmith of Nishapur (Hujwiri: _The Revelation of the Veiled_)
        Shibli and Junaid
        Ghulam Haidar of Kashmir
        Eat No Stones
        Why the Dog Could Not Drink
        Demonstration of Training
        What the Devil Said
        The Four Sheikhs and the Caliph
        A Matter of Honour
        Fudail the Hiwayman and His Child
        Problems of Generosity
        Th Fortune of Man
        The Flower and the Stone
        Man Believes What He Thinks is True
        Why Way Round is Right?
        The Master
        Hilali of Smarkand
        The Curse of the Beduin
        Why the Dervish was at Court
        The Compulsion to Teach
        Time for Learning
        If I Ask and They Refuse
        How You Should Think of Me
        Saint-Worship
        Mohammed Shah, Murshid of Turkestan
        Why the Dervish Hides Himself (Munaqib El-Arifin)
        Prayers for the Dead
        Thauri on Contemplation
        Strange Agitation
        The Ass
        Responsibility of the Teacher
        The Jewel (El-Shafai)
        Bayazid Bistami
        The Idol
        Money (Dhun-Nun/Sufian Thauri/Ibrahim Ibn-Adam)
        The Delightful Village (Yahya Razi)
        The Essentials, Conduct and Occasion (Abu-Hafs)
        The Complete Man (Rasul Shah/Nawab Jan-Fishan Khan/Hadrat
                             Abul-Hasan Khirqani/Baba Tahir Uryan)
        Travel -- With and Without a Vehicle (Niffari/Bishr-Al-Hafi/
                  Hudhaifa/Ibn Abbas/The Prophet/The Caliph Ali)
        Those Who Worship the Externals (Shabistari)
        Worship (Rumi)
        Asceticism (Rumi)
        The Beloved (Rumi)
        Emptiness (Sanai, _Hadiqa_)
        Hunger (Sanai, _Hadiqa_)
        The Beings of God (Sanai, _Hadiqa_)
        Praying For Oneself
        Sentimentality (Bishr Ibn El-Harith)
        The Patched Robe (Attar, _Ilahi-Nama_)
        Prayer of Saadi (Saadi, _Gulistan_)
        Seeing (Hafiz)
        The Aspect of the Dervish (Hafiz)
        
        
Part Five: TEACHING-STORIES
        The Generous Man
        Destruction of a Town
        The Magic Horse
        The Cradle
        The Three Deaf Men and the Dumb Dervish
        My Lady Fatima and the Animals
        Moses and the Shepherd
        The Cap of Invisibility
        The King and the Wolf
        The Watermelon Hunter
        His Excellency
        Do More Than Laugh at Fools
        The Happiest Man in the World
        The Sheep and the Purse (Rumi)
        The Indian Bird (Rumi)
        
        
Part Six: THEMES FOR SOLITARY CONTEMPLATION

        1.Solitary Contemplation Themes
                To be a Sufi (Abu Said)
                What Must Come (Abu Said)
                Worship (Rabia)
                The Door
                Like Calls to Like
                Fruit and Thistles
                When Avicenna Met Abu Said
                The Sufi Call (Salik Hamzavi)
                Bread (Harith Muhasibi)
                Benefit (Al-Nasafi)
                Point of View (Mirza Khan, _Ansari_)
                Teachers, Teachings, Taught (Musa Kazim)
                Service and Mastership (Tirmizi)
                Perception and Explanation (Haji Bektash)
                To a Would-Be Dervish (Khwaja Hafiz of Shiraz)
                Sufism (Ibn El-Jalali: "Sufism is truth without form.")
                Becoming What One Can Become (Sayad Imam Ali Shah)
                Good and Evil (Shabistari)
                Remedy (Hazrat Ali)
                The World (Shabistari, _Gulshan-i-Raz_)
                Direction (Hafiz)
                Sufi Literature (Ajmal of Bardakhshan)
                Research (Hafiz)
                Dumbness (Nizami)
                The Pearl (Hafiz)
                Happiness and Sadness (Ibn-Idris El-Shafai)
                Real Goodness (Bayazid)
                Death (Uwais El-Qaarni)
                Commenting on a Recluse (Sahl)
                Eight Qualities of a Sufi (Junaid of Baghdad)
                Where it Went (Hasan of Basra)
                Affinities (Simabi)
                Riches (El-Zubeir son of Abu-Bakr)
                Discilpleship (Zulfikar son of Jangi)
                'I' (Abu-Hasan El-Shadhili)
                Small Change (Ibn Ikbal)
                What Looks After You (Ali)
                Destructive (The Prophet)
                
        2. A Sufi Notebook (Pahlawan-i-Zaif)
                Service
                Seeking
                Effort
                Idolatry
                Discipleship
                Mastership
                Companionship
                Literature
                Exercises
                Appearances
                Faith and Religion
                Love
                Study in the World
                Dervish Assemblies
                Differences Between Schools
                Parable, Idiom and Metaphor
                Higher Levels of Understanding
                Annoyance and Unconcernedness
                'States'
                Reading, Hearing, Being Present
                Hope and Fear
                
                
Part Seven: GROUP RECITALS
        The Price
        The Gardener
        The Caravanserai
        The Book
        Religion (Alauddin Attar)
        Prayer
        The Meaning of Culture
        What Sufism Teaches (Sheikh El-Islam Zakaria Ansari)
        Choosing (Hujwiri)
        The Way in Which They Bring Their Teaching (Arif Yahya)
        Formula of Osman of the West
        Eternal Sufism (Ibn El-Farid)
        The Seed of Sufi Knowledge (Bayazid Bistami)
        In the Presence of a Wise One (Mirza Asim)
        The Aim (Ablahi Mutlaqtar)
        To the Prince (The _Hanama_ of Arifi)
        The Assemblies of Wisdom (The Qalandar Bahadur Shah)
        How the Search for Knowledge is Frustrated (Azamia Dervishes)
        The Prelude to Realization (Hafiz)
        Symptoms (Hamami)
        Remembering (Sheikh Ismail Hakki)
        The Problem of Music (Ibn Hamdan)
        Wild Utterances (Ibn Ata)
        The Atom (Sayed Ahmad Hatif)
        Thou Art There (Haykali)
        To Reach the Degree of Truth (Junaid of Baghdad/Abu-Shafiq of Balkh)
        Obedience (Anisa Imtihani)
        That Which You Admire in the Sufis (Musa Kazim)
        The Path and the Gate (Hujwiri)
        What to Do and What to Have Done (Khawwas)
        Saving Oneself (Anis Ahmad ibn El-Alawi)
        The Tattooed Lion (Rumi)
        The Saint and Essence (Shabistari)
        Evolution (Rumi)
        Dark and Light (Hafiz)
        Immortality (Ali)
        Fools and Wickedness (The Prophet)
        Men and Knowledge (Jesus, son of Mary, according to
                             the Book of Amu-Darya)
        Men and Kings (Abu El-Aswad
        If You Like Ascenticism (Hasan of Basra)
        Think (Sahl of Tustar)
        What is Identity?
        What the Wise Do (Abdullah ibn Mubarak)
        The Answer (zauqi)
        Sleeping (Mir Yahya Kashi)
        Man (Astrabadi)
        The Dog and the Blows (Shibli)
        The Price (Fighani)
        We are Alive (Abu-Talib Kalim)
        What is Virtue? (Hamid Qalindoz)
        Knowing (Sarmoun Recital)
        The Swimmer (Latif Ahmad)
        The Teacher
        Touching the Patchwork Robe (Halima Hanim)
        The Celestial Apple
        
        
Part Eight: LETTERS AND LECTURES
        What is Sufism? (Idris ibn-Ashraf)
        Remembering (Haji Bahaudin, Dervish of Bokhara)
        Knowledge - Action - Love (Rauf Mazari, _Naizi_)
        Symbols (Khwaja Pulad of Erivan)
        This Alone is True (Hakim Tahirjan of Kafkaz)
        The Unity of Knowledge (Khwaja Salahudin of Bohkara)
        Now That I am Dead (Mirza Abdul-Hadi Khan of Bokhara)
        Baraka (Sheikh Shamsudin Siwasi)
        The People of the House (The 'Servant of the People of the House',
                      in _That Which is Most Hidden_)
        Knowledge (Sayed Najmuddin)
        On Entering, Living in -- and Leaving -- the World (Hashim the
                      Sidqi, on Rumi)
        Studying with the Famous (Ghazali/Badakhshani/Abdurahman of Bengal/
                      Zikiria ibn El-Yusufi/Talib Shamsi Ardabili/Mustafa
                      Qalibi of Antioch/Khwaja Ali Ramitani, addressing
                      a Yemeni delegation)
        'Differences' in Sufi Teaching (Ahmed El-Badawi)
        Which Do You Seek -- Appearance or Reality? (Nawab Jan-Fishan Khan)
        The Sufi Path (Insan-i-Kamil/Zalim Abdurrahman)
        The Sufi (Salik)
        The Martyrs (Itibari)
        Teachings of the Sufis (Abdal Ali Haidar)
        How Strange a Thing is Man (Oration of Qalandar Puri)
        Congregations (Abd-El-Majid Tanti)
        Imitations and Honesty (Haidar-i-Sirdan)
        Man and Teacher (Mudir Ali Sabri)
        Obedience (Umm El-Hasan)
        Growth, Deterioration and Renewal (Nawab Mohammed Ali Shah,
                      _Nishan-i-Ghaib_)
        Readings in Sufi Philosophy (Hadrat Bahaudin Naqshband)
        
                
Part Nine: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON SUFISM
        Sufism and Islam (Mohammed Ali El-Misri)
        Deep Understanding (Rais Tchaqmaqzade)
        
END
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