description: Ever since its first publication in 1988, this book has become recognized as a major document in twentieth-century Sufism, being one of the first books in which one can actually witness the process of a spiritual teaching taking place. What we have is a series of edited transcripts of a Sufi teacher talking to his pupils and laying down a baseline of references that can be incorporated into our own way of thinking, assuming we choose to do so. Just as his father Ikbal Ali Shah and his brother Idries Shah produced a body of lite rature, Omar Ali-Shah has produced a body of documents which reconcile our own disturbed and anguished epoch with a way of thinking and teaching that has existed since the dawn of mankind.Omar Ali-Shah was born in 1922 and lives in England. As a member of a distinguished family of Sufi teachers descended from the Prophet, he could have remained in an eastern context which was automatically sympathetic to the Sufi Tradition, but he chose to pursue the work begun by his father in bringing this way of thinking to the West. After thirty-five years of effort it can be seen that his work, along with that of the rest of his family, has completely changed the western attitude towards this ancient way of thought. At the age of seventy-five, Omar Ali-Shah continues to be in direct teaching contact with over two thousand students scattered around the world. His other books are Sufisn for Today, Sufism as Therapy, The Rules or Secrets of the Naqshbandi Order, The Sufi Tradition in the West and translations of Saadi's The Rose Garden (Gulistan) and The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam .
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: La Senda del Buscador
titlecomplete: La Senda del Buscador
ratings_count: 15
publisher: Alif Pub Corp