TY  - BOOK
AU  - Green, Nile.
AU  - Nile Green.
TI  - Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: : The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
SN  - 9781324002413
U1  - 325.34 GRE 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - , New York
PB  - : W W Norton & Company
KW  - Social Science
KW  - International Migration
KW  - Colonization
N2  - 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
ER  -