Title: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Content:  Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study is a book by the writer Idries Shah published by Octagon Press in 1977. A later edition was published in 2002. Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study can be read as part of a whole course of study.
Title: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Content:  Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study was favourably received, the Books and Bookmen review commenting that; “It elaborates points found difficult in our culture because of sets of mind.” Asian Affairs wrote that it “contains serious warnings about the dangers of facile cult-formation”, while the Psychology Today review described the book as “an extraordinarily effective learning tool.”
Title: Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
Content:  Based on university lectures at the New School for Social Research, New York, and the University of California, San Francisco, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study deals with many of the problems of Sufic methods of study and those which militate against its effective progress in the modern world; notably the unrecognised assumptions which we make about ourselves and about learning and its process.
Title: Idries Shah
Content:  0-900860-58-8 (1977) ; Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study ISBN: 0-900860-56-1 (1977) ; Special Illumination: The Sufi Use of Humour ISBN: 0-900860-57-X (1977) ; A Perfumed Scorpion ISBN: 0-900860-62-6 (1978) ; Learning How to Learn ISBN: 0-900860-59-6 (1978) ; The Hundred Tales of Wisdom ISBN: 0-86304-049-7 (1978) ; Evenings with Idries Shah ISBN: 0-86304-008-X (1981) ; Letters and Lectures of Idries Shah ISBN: 0-86304-010-1 (1981) ; Observations ISBN: 0-86304-013-6 (1982) ; Seeker After Truth ISBN: 0-900860-91-X (1982) ; Sufi Thought and Action ISBN: 0-86304-051-9 (1990) ; The Commanding Self ISBN: 0-86304-066-7 (1994) ; Knowing How to Know ISBN: 0-86304-072-1 (1998) 
Title: Sufi studies
Content:  By the end of the 20th century, the academic study of Sufism was well established in university departments of religious studies. The perspectives of these later scholars varied. Some were purely scientific, while some followed in the line of Massignon, or (sometimes privately) in the line of Guénon and the Traditionalists, modified somewhat for an academic environment. One of the major trends within this later scholarship is comparative studies between specific Sufis and their counterparts in other religious traditions. Examples are Toshihiko Izutsu’s Sufism and Taoism (1984), Michael Sells’ Mystical Languages of Unsaying (1994), Reza Shah-Kazemi’s Paths to Transcendence (2006), and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh’s Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity (2016). For a contemporary academical "state of the art" see: "Sufism in the West", bibliography pp. 190–202 (Jamal Malik and John Hinnells ed. Routledge: London and New York, 2006).
Title: The Way of the Sufi
Content:  The Way of the Sufi was the best-selling follow-up introduction to Sufism by the writer Idries Shah after the publication of his first book on the subject, The Sufis. Whereas The Sufis eschewed academic norms such as footnotes and an index, The Way of the Sufi provided a full section of notes and a bibliography at the end of its first chapter, entitled "The Study of Sufism in the West". Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had fulfilled while alive. As such, The Way of the Sufi can be read as part of a whole course of study.
Title: Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
Content:  He authored Rangkaian Ruba'iyyat a literary work that was among the first ever published in 1959 and the classic work, Some Aspects of Sufism as Understood and Practised Among the Malays, in 1963. His two-volume doctoral thesis on The Mysticism of Hamzah Fansuri, which is the most important and comprehensive work to date on one of the greatest and perhaps the most controversial Sufi scholars in the Malay world earned him the PhD in the UK in 1965. Al-Attas engaged in polemics on the subjects of Islamic history, philology, and Malay literary history, which have resulted in the opening of new avenues for known as the Sha'ir, and have established that Hamzah Fansuri was 
Title: Mohammad Yousuf Abu al-Farah Tartusi
Content: Crimingham, J. Spencer. The Sufi Orders in Islam. Oxford University Press, New York, 1998. ; Tazkira Mashaikh Qadria, Mohammad Deen Kaleem, Noori Kutb Khana Lahore, Pakistan. ; Tareekh Mashaikh Qadria, Mohammad Sadiq Kasuri, Zawia Publications Lahore, Pakistan. ; Tazkira Mashaikh Qadria Fazila, Asrar Al-Hasan Qadri, Tasawwuf Foundation Lahore, Pakistan, ISBN: 969-506-026-9. 
Title: Ni'matullāhī
Content:  The numerous publications of the order include the bi-annual SUFI Journal. The Khaniqahi Nimatullahi also publish in Persian, English, and other languages. Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh's writings include a seven-volume treatment of the states and stations the Sufi path, his twelve-volume explanation of the meanings of Sufi mystical terminology, and his many annotated biographies of the great historic masters of the path. Social activities of the present-day order include the establishment of clinics and medical centers in impoverished regions of West Africa, where the order has attracted numerous adherents.
Title: Sufi studies
Content:  Sufi studies is a particular branch of comparative studies that uses the technical lexicon of the Islamic mystics, the Sufis, to exemplify the nature of its ideas; hence the frequent reference to Sufi Orders. It may be divided into two main branches, the orientalist/academic and the spiritual.

Question: Who is the author of Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study?
Answer: Idries Shah.
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