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020			_a9781324002413
028			_a: Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. _b: B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi _c: 3275 _d: 28/08/2026
082			_a325.34 GRE
100			_aGreen, Nile.
245			_aEmpire's Son, Empire's Orphan _b: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah. _c/ Nile Green.
260			_a, New York _b: W W Norton & Company _c, 2024.
300			_a369p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1997.5
520			_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
650			_aSocial Science
650			_aInternational Migration
650			_aColonization
700			_aNile Green.
942			_cBOOK
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