The Englishman's Handbook

By Idries Shah

Book Overview

The Englishman's Handbook is the third book in Idries Shah's best-selling trilogy on why the English are as strange as they are. He examines the 'baffling phenomena of the British and Britishness',... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0863040772
• ISBN13: 9780863040771
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Octagon Pr
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Have it your way

Critics complain that Idries Shah's books in Sufism are not Sufism at all. Here is a book that doesn't claim to be Sufism. As Jalalduin Rumi wrote 700 years ago: "In it what is in it." It is provocative, humorous and packed with strange stories that lead the mind along unfamiliar paths. Whatever one cares to label it, reading it relaxes the rigid pattern thinking that unnecesarily holds most of us from seeing the world new each day and having choices of various responses to it. It is the third of a trilogy. The other two are DARKEST ENGLAND and THE NATIVES ARE RESTLESS. Anthropology on the English is itself a bit shocking--and funny.