The Middle East bedside book /
Shah, Tahir.
London : Octagon Press,
1992.
Originally published 1991.
Travellers' tales: Baksheesh for the Englishman -- Pasha speaks -- Travel notes -- Letters from Morocco -- English through eastern eyes -- Tourists and missionaries -- Through other eyes: Through eastern eyes -- Arabia in Europe -- Tales; eastern or western? -- Girl who had seven divs for brothers -- Treaty between France and Turkey -- Moslem art in Europe -- Middle East facts and fallacies -- Prophet: Prophet Mohammed -- Sayings of the prophet Mohammed -- Password and the builders -- Eastern customs-Western travellers: Greetings and salutations -- Middle East business -- Skiving in the sun -- Popularity through proverbs -- Lokman the wise -- Problems of language -- Meeting and mingling -- Merchant and the Frankish wife -- History of the adventurer -- Sufi mystics of the west -- Dreams, derivations -- Arab occult writers; their effect on Europe -- Psychology: Psychology -- Hammam name -- Magic of numbers -- Chivalry and teachers: Chivalry -- Joha the joker -- Indirect teaching -- Armenian lore -- Yes, your highness -- Assemblies of Al-Hairi -- Middle East facts and fallacies -- Rituals and human nature: Strange ritual in Tunisia -- Human nature -- Fools -- Charms and pearls -- More East/West encounters; Idries Shah -- Kings, crooks and caliphs -- Music and other diversions -- Customs and social habits -- Afterwards a sherbet -- Wisdom and honour: Words of the sages -- Honour -- Sayings of the Prophet Mohammed -- Generosity is sacred -- Wisdom of women -- Sufi wise ones.