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Mulla Nasrudin, the wise fool of Eastern folklore, holds a special place in Sufi studies. The Sufis, who believe that deep intuition is the only real guide to knowledge, use the humorous stories of Nasrudin's adventures almost like exercises in Eastern thought. The Sufis ask people to choose a few which especially appeal to them, and turn them over in their mind, making them their own. Sufi teaching masters say that in this way a breakthrough into a higher wisdom can be effected. A single story can work on many levels, from great humor to initiating profound thought. Idries Shah's collection of Nasrudin tales is an excellent introduction to Sufi thought and Eastern philosophy.
- Sales Rank: #1856877 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .30" w x 5.51" l, .38 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
Review
"... completely captivating ... a book for children of all and every age." -- The Irish Times, December 17, 1966
"... far superior to Aesop ..." -- The Times, November 29, 1973
"... jokes that arouse laughter in the simple and contemplation in the illuminated." -- The Listener, December 15, 1966
"A humorous masterpiece ... an outstanding book ..." -- Birmingham Post, November 26, 1966
"A major psychological and cultural event of our time." -- Psychology Today
"All will welcome the telling by Idries Shah." -- Times Educational Supplement
"Nasrudin, forced to review this book, might ask where folly ended and wisdom began." -- Brian W. Aldiss, Oxford Mail, November 3, 1966
"One can pick up this astonishing book again and again, finding each time new insights ..." -- BBC's Bookcase, February 14, 1974
"One is immediately forced to use one's mind in a new way." -- New York Times
"The humour is there for all to appreciate. There is wisdom to be detected, too." -- West Lancashire Evening Gazette, January 9, 1974
"The most interesting books in the English language." -- Saturday Review
About the Author
As the urgency of our global situation becomes apparent, more and more readers are turning to the books of Idries Shah (1924-1996) as a way to train new capacities and new ways of thinking.
Shah has been described as "the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world." His lively, contemporary books have sold over 15 million copies in 12 languages worldwide and have been awarded many prizes. They have been reviewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times, The Tribune, The Telegraph, and numerous other international journals and newspapers.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
COOKING BY CANDLE
Nasrudin made a wager that he could spend a night on a near-by mountain and survive, in spite of ice and snow. Several wags in the teahouse agreed to adjudicate.
Nasrudin took a book and a candle and sat through the coldest night he had ever known. In the morning, half-dead, he claimed his money.
"Did you have nothing at all to keep you warm?" asked the villagers.
"Nothing."
"Not even a candle?"
"Yes, I had a candle."
"Then the bet is off."
Nasrudin did not argue.
Some months later he invited the same people to a feast at his house. They sat down in his reception room, waiting for the food. Hours passed.
They started to mutter about food.
"Let's go and see how it is getting on," said Nasrudin.
Everyone trooped into the kitchen. They found an enormous pot of water, under which a candle was burning. The water was not even tepid.
"It is not ready yet," said the Mulla. "I don't know why - it has been there since yesterday."
THE SHORT CUT
Walking home one wonderful morning, Nasrudin thought that it would be a good idea to take a short cut through the woods. "Why", he asked himself; "should I plod along a dusty road when I could be communing with Nature, listening to the birds and looking at the flowers? This is indeed a day of days; a day for fortunate pursuits!"
So saying, he launched himself into the greenery. He had not gone very far, however, when he fell into a pit, where he lay reflecting.
"It is not such a fortunate day, after all," he meditated; "in fact it is just as well that I took this short cut. If things like this can happen in a beautiful setting like this, what might not have befallen me on that nasty highway?"
Excerpted from The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah. Copyright © 1983. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Much more than entertainment
By Dan Sperling
Each one of Idries Shah's three delightful Nasrudin books - The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin, the Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin and the Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin - is not only the perfect gift for any thinking person with a sense of humor, but also a fitting antidote to the stress, pressure and confusion of modern life. For beyond the laughter lie deeper levels of meaning that reveal themselves at their own pace and can help broaden our perception and increase our understanding. The bite-sized jokes center around Mulla Nasrudin, an age-old Middle Eastern teaching figure whose antics mirror those of the human mind as he juggles the roles of wise man, fool and our own self. Calling these jokes "perfectly designed models for isolating and holding distortions of the mind which so often pass for reasonable behavior," author Idries Shah noted that they have been used for centuries by the Sufis as teaching exercises. Other specialists - from physicists to psychologists - have employed them to illustrate concepts that defy more straightforward explanations. I've not seen anything like them anywhere else.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Humour and Higher Wisdom
By Kevan
The first volume of the Mulla Nasrudin Corpus, retold by Afghan author Idries Shah, is a great introduction to the use of humour by the Middle Eastern and Central Asian sages called the Sufis. Nasrudin is a "wise fool" teaching-figure: sometimes acting as a guide, sometimes exhibiting shortcomings in the mind by his hilariously "brain-dead" behaviour. Nasrudin stories have been told and enjoyed across Asia, North Africa, and Southeastern Europe for centuries (and at least one collection was published in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century). The Sufis reportedly use the tales almost as exercises. "They ask people to choose a few which especially appeal to them, and to turn them over in the mind, making them their own. Teaching masters of the dervishes say that in this way a breakthrough into a higher wisdom can be effected." In addition, the stories are vividly and beautifully told. The delightful tale "His Excellency" is alone worth the price of admission. This is a new edition of the tales, released May 1, 2015 by ISF Publishing.
EXTENDED REVIEW:
This book presents many comic illustrations to help us see how the mind works, and how it can potentially work.
As with other books of Idries Shah's, a review can at best give only a slight indication of the volume's content. Nothing can replace the piquant experience of "tasting" these jokes and tales for yourself.
Here are a few:
"See what I mean?"
Nasrudin was throwing handfuls of crumbs around his house.
'What are you doing?' someone asked him.
'Keeping the tigers away.'
'But there are no tigers in these parts.'
'That's right. Effective, isn't it?'
"There is more Light here"
Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground.
'What have you lost, Mulla?' he asked. 'My key,' said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for it.
After a time the other man asked: 'Where exactly did you drop it?'
'In my own house.'
'Then why are you looking here?'
'There is more light here than inside my own house.'
"Only one thing wrong with it"
Walking with a disciple one day, Mulla Nasrudin saw for the first time in his life a beautiful lakeland scene.
'What a delight!' he exclaimed. 'But if only, if only...'
'If only what, Master?'
'If only they had not put water into it!'
Some of the anecdotes are sidesplittingly funny: like "The Robe," or certain passages in "His Excellency," or "Cut down on your Harness Intake." Each of the stories appear to have a number of dimensions -- different dimensions seem to become clearer with thought, time, experience, and repeated re-readings.
The book, by using this type of tale, seems to communicate its content in a minimally indoctrinational manner. We are not conditioned to be somehow like Nasrudin; but we are given many perspectives that can help us in different situations, as well as being given, almost by the way, a great deal of information (rather than persuasion).
"First Things first" is well worth spending some time reflecting upon. Its content seems to include important lessons about how to learn. "Letter of the Law" beautifully illustrates the rationalizing mind at work (among other things). "Every little helps" points up the ridiculous (and potentially harmful) situations that ensue when we miss essential elements in a happening.
A secondary point, but one perhaps worth mentioning, is Shah's sheer skill as a word-artist. Like an adept cartoonist, he can evoke a whole scene with great economy:
"What has gone before..."
In a dark alleyway an agile pickpocket tried to snatch Nasrudin's purse. The Mulla was too quick for him, and there was a violent struggle. Eventually Nasrudin got his man down on the ground.
At this moment a charitable woman passing called out:
'You bully! Let that little man get up, and give him a chance.'
'Madam,' panted Nasrudin, ''you ignore the trouble which I have had getting him down.'
This would appear to be the product of a long, well-honed storytelling tradition.
Repeatedly, Nasrudin emphasizes the value of RELEVANT learning:
"Never know when it might come in useful"
Nasrudin sometimes took people for trips in his boat. One day a fussy pedagogue hired him to ferry him across a very wide river.
As soon as they were afloat the scholar asked whether it was going to be rough.
'Don't ask me nothing about it,' said Nasrudin.
'Have you never studied grammar?'
'No,' said the Mulla.
'In that case, half your life has been wasted.'
The Mulla said nothing.
Soon a terrible storm blew up. The Mulla's crazy cockleshell was filling with water.
He leaned over towards his companion.
'Have you ever learnt to swim?'
'No,' said the pedant.
'In that case, schoolmaster, ALL your life is lost, for we are sinking.'
Nasrudin seems to provide glimpses of another plane of existence (which nonetheless seems intimately interwoven with our familiar one). The tales seem to help us to learn something about it. But if the Mulla does so, he does it in a way that keeps us usefully tied to our ordinary life, which we are not allowed to forget. Indeed there seems a very adult awareness of the world that goes along with the comedy, as in "Cooking by Candle," or
"Salt is not Wool"
One day the Mulla was taking a donkey-load of salt to market, and drove the ass through a stream. The salt was dissolved. The Mulla was angry at the loss of his load. The ass was frisky with relief.
Next time he passed that way he had a load of wool. After the animal had passed through the stream, the wool was thoroughly soaked, and very heavy. The donkey staggered under the soggy load.
'Ha!' shouted the Mulla, 'you thought you would get off lightly every[italicized] time you went through the water, didn't you?'
A clear awareness of our sometimes harsh ordinary life seems to be one of the things exhibited in such tales as "Fear" or "The Pace of Life."
So in this sense Nasrudin is not fantasy, certainly not escapism -- unless it is to escape from the ridiculousness of what we take to be life. Sometimes the ridiculousness of our conventional approaches is shown up (as in "How Nasrudin created Truth," "The Rope and the Sky," or "Every little helps," already mentioned); sometimes the Mulla, operating on this other plane, seems ridiculous to the conventionally-minded (as in "Back to Front" or "I know her best").
We often see Nasrudin taking advantage of unfamiliar patterns and relationships:
"Sleep is an Activity"
Nasrudin wanted to steal some fruit from a stall, but the stallholder had a fox which kept watch. He overheard the man say to his fox[,] 'Foxes are craftier than dogs, and I want you to guard the stall with cunning. There are always thieves about. When you see anyone doing anything, ask yourself why he is doing it, and whether it can be related to the security of the stall.'
When the man had gone away, the fox came to the front of the stall and looked at Nasrudin lurking on a lawn opposite. Nasrudin at once lay down and closed his eyes. The fox thought, 'Sleeping is not doing [ital.] anything.'
As he watched Nasrudin he too began to feel tired. He lay down and went to sleep.
Then Nasrudin crept past him and stole some fruit.
Read and enjoy this book, for a taste of the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Incomparably True
By R.S.
I'm guessing but I think that Shah would've approved of his work being available to readers via various contemporary means; book, e-book, and now audio book. It seems to fit with the 'scatter', or 'shotgun' approach to the dissemination of ideas, which he occasionally mentioned.
His notes on the nature of the tales, their potential diversity in application to thought and life, supply a manner of engaging with them that is much more fruitful than the automatic assumption that they are merely amusing stories from the mysterious East.
Another excellent work from Scotland's finest thinker.
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