Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan : The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah.
Green, Nile.
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan : The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah. / Nile Green. - , New York : W W Norton & Company , 2024. - 369p. : 24cm.
In the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed their assumed identities into careers full of drama and celebrity, writing dozens of books that influenced the political and cultural elite. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned picaresque travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics. Above all, father and son told Western readers what they wanted to hear: audacious yarns of eastern adventure and harmless Sufi mystics—myths that, as the century wore on and the Taliban seized power, became increasingly detached from reality.Empire’s Son, Empire’s OrphanEmpire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan
9781324002413
Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi
Social Science
International Migration
Colonization
325.34 GRE
Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan : The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah. / Nile Green. - , New York : W W Norton & Company , 2024. - 369p. : 24cm.
In the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a mystical Middle East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah parlayed their assumed identities into careers full of drama and celebrity, writing dozens of books that influenced the political and cultural elite. Pitching themselves as the authentic voice of the Muslim world, they penned picaresque travelogues and exotic potboilers alongside weighty tomes on Islam and politics. Above all, father and son told Western readers what they wanted to hear: audacious yarns of eastern adventure and harmless Sufi mystics—myths that, as the century wore on and the Taliban seized power, became increasingly detached from reality.Empire’s Son, Empire’s OrphanEmpire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan
9781324002413
Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. : B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi
Social Science
International Migration
Colonization
325.34 GRE
