01716nam a22002417a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801200007608200150019610000170021124501000022826000480032830000190037636500110039552008240040665000190123065000280124965000170127770000160129494200090131099900170131995201380133620260903134501.0260903b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781324002413  a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.b: B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhic: 3275d: 28/08/2026  a325.34 GRE  aGreen, Nile.  aEmpire's Son, Empire's Orphanb: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah.c/ Nile Green.  a, New Yorkb: W W Norton & Companyc, 2024.  a369p.c: 24cm.  b1997.5  aIn 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  aSocial Science  aInternational Migration  aColonization  aNile Green.  cBOOK  c70694d70694  00102ddc4070aSNULbSNULd2026-09-03eRaghav Books Pvt. Ptd.g1997.50l0o325.34 GREp31719r2026-09-03 13:45:21w2026-09-03yBOOK