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| In Arabian Nights | 
 enlarge | Author: Tahir Shah
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
Buy New: £11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 232691
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0385612079
EAN: 9780385612074
ASIN: 0385612079
Publication Date: May 5, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Publisher: DoubledayDate of Publication: 20080505Binding: paperback
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Bridging West and East Elegantly August 10, 2008
This delightful book explores the ancient living tradition of storytelling that bridges East and West. Somehow this ancient oral skill seems to survive within contemporary Moroccan society at many more liberal levels of profoundity than we of the West can usually imagine. It is the contrast between the known and the unknown that Shah, like his father and grandfather, also both writers, so eloquently delivers to our minds. This is the work of a rare multi-culturalist, speaking to our hearts.
As multi layered as the stories he describes April 20, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Tahir Shah continues his sequence of high calibre books. This book is clearly underwritten by a genuine love of Morocco and is very much written from the heart. It has depths which repay frequent re-reading and certainly reinspired my own interest in teaching stories and their functions as well as evoking a desire to visit Morocco(I hasten to add not as a tourist). A tremendous book from a man who is perhaps trying to help bridge at least two worlds.
Unputdownable March 27, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book immensely even though I found it flawed.
(It's hard to believe that Moroccans use Persian Words like Mushkil Gusha and have Central Asian character names in their stories for instance. Tahir Shah's illustrious ancestors on the other hand used to modify their stories so that they appeared culturally unified.)
Yet the hesitations make this book strangely realistic and close to the heart.
For some reason I thought of the plight of Rumi's son Sultan Walad; whom I imagine succumbed under huge pressure when he allegedly founded the cult of the Mevlevi (or whirling) dervishes.
A thousand and one nights: a story book for grown-ups March 21, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This tremendously well written book tells the story of the author's life in Morocco, which is used as the frame for the retelling of several great Arabian stories from Arabian Nights and other legend. Not only impossible to put down, this book also feels like a magical story book which sweeps you back in time through oriental history and fantasy.
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