Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin: The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0863040403 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The most interesting books in the English language."Saturday Review "A major psychological and cultural event of our time."Psychology Today "One is immediately forced to use one's mind in a new way."New York Times The instrumental function of Shah's work is now well established among people from all walks of life. As the urgency of our global situation becomes apparent, more and more readers are turning to the books of writer Idries Shah as a way to train new capacities and new ways of thinkin
" a rare gift: healing laughter." -- New Society, November 10, 1966" the vitality of this figure is shown by his capacity to spawn new tales in whatever culture" -- Critics' Choice, Observer, December 16, 1973"Extremely useful in teaching students about management and computers." -- Thomas Malone, MIT"It presents a blueprint of the human mental structure." -- Robert Ornstein, Ph.D.
Skillful contemporary retellings of hundreds of collected stories and sayings bring the unmistakable--often backhanded--wisdom, wit and charm of the timeless jokester to life. They are used as teaching exercises, in part to momentarily "freeze" situations in which states of mind can be recognized. He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can. Today we find him in a high-level physics report, illustrating phenomena that can't be described in ordinary technical terms. According to a legend dating from at least the 13th century, Nasrudin was snatched as a schoolboy from the clutches of the "Old Villain"--the crude system of thought that ensnares man--to carry through the ages the message of how to escape. The Mulla and his stories appear in literature and oral traditions from the Middle East to Greece, Russia, France--even China. In these delightful volumes, Shah not only gives the Mulla a proper vehicle for our times, he proves that the centuries-old stories and quips of Nasrudin are still some of the funniest jokes in the world.. He was chosen because he could make people laugh, and humor has a way of slipping through the cracks of the most rigid thinking habits. Many nations claim Nasrudin as a native son, but nobody really knows who he was or where he came from. Acclaimed as humorous masterpieces, as collections of t
"Much more than entertainment." according to A Customer. Each one of Idries Shah's three delightful Nasrudin books - The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin, the Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin and The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin - is not only the perfect gift for any thinking person with a sense of humor, but 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 unders. Booklover said Funny and Profound. I'm just back from a trip to Turkey, where I discovered that Mulla Nasrudin is almost as popular as PEANUTS is in the United States. In addition to providing amusement, however, the Nasrudin stories are also used there as exercises for spiritual development with children and adults alike, since they externalize in joke form common patterns of human thought and behavior that need to be identified and understood in order for a human being to make progress. Thus, the Turks, and interested Western readers as well, can. Not exactly Mulla Nasrudin Jack Sting This book is a compilation of funny anecdotes and jokes compiled through the ages. The choice of words and sentence structures clearly shows the difficulty in translating such text. In these regards the book is fine.This book fails mightily when talking about Mulla Nasuraddin. I understand that Mulla at this stage is mostly considered somewhat fictitious figures and stories about him probably have different origins which are attributed over the times to a single person. At the same time, the author has completely