Dermis Probe

Idries Shah

• Publisher: ISF Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781784790530
• Edition: 0

A serious, yet entertaining, look at the impediments in current thought which prevent certain forms of understanding between people. The title story was made into an award-winning film with script by Idries Shah, and chosen as an Outstanding Film of the Year.The Dermis Probe comprises a collection of extracts from the written and oral tradition of Eastern thinkers.In his preface, Shah notes, 'In this book you can find illustrated some of the peculiarities of thought in the country which is today's world, seen by its inhabitants and by those who call themselves visitors.'

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Books by Idries Shah
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface: Goldfish
• The Dermis Probe
• Salute to the Thief
• The Critic
• The Materials of the Locality
• The Strange Becomes Commonplace
• Invisible Service
• Dismissed
• Four Communities
• Accumulated Supplications
• Opinion and Fact
• Full Circle
• The Insane
• A Group of Sufis
• Salik on the Road to Qandahar
• Absent
• Three Sufi Masters
• Secret Knowledge
• The Mob
• Invisible
• Ahmed Yasavi
• The Steam of the Pot of Ikhtiari
• The Journey
• I Don’t Know
• How Kashmir Got its Name
• The Way which Seems to Lead to Worthlessness…
• Anwar
• Qualities
• Anwar Abbasi
• Protection
• The Aristocrat
• Grief and Joy
• The Magician
• Grammar
• Dissatisfied
• Conviction
• The Light-Taker
• Interpretation
• Yusuf Son of Hayula
• In China
• To Cause Annoyance
• Discouraging Visitors
• Bahaudin
• Reading
• Eyes and Light
• Kasab of Mazar
• Money
• Digestion
• Target
• The Food of the Peacock
• The Perfect Man
• Now Begin
• A Thousand Dinars
• The Ordeals
• Men and Camels
• Illustrative Exclamations
• Success in Discipleship
• Pomegranates
• The Sleeping Man
• Abdali
• The Stone
• Unfettered
• Musa of Isfahan
• Sandals
• Struggle
• The Yemenite Inquirer
• Minai’s Journey
• The Legend of the Hidden Physician
• Only Three Men in the World
• The Palace of the Man in Blue
• The Man Who Wanted Knowledge
• The Mantle
• Unwritten History
• The Legend of the Cattleman
• The Handicap
• How Things Work
• Three Villages
• The Sutra of Neglectfulness
• Remedy
• In the Land of Fools
• Cooking the Cabbage
• The Branch
• The Fruit
• The Magic Word
• How To Prove It
• Yearning
• Man and Sufi
• The Book
• Dervishhood
• The Reflection Chamber at Doshambe
• Learning of the Unripe
• Alacrity and Respect
• The Cripples
• Names
• Repetition
• Bricks and Walls
• The Hole and the Thread
• The Squirrel
• Behavior
• Bahaudin Naqshband said:
• Genealogy
• One of Ours
• Three Reasons
• Exile
• The Medicine
• Ansari’s Answer
• Two Pieces of Advice
• The Gifts
• The Fox who Was Made a Sufi
• When a Man Comes to See You…
• Notes
• A Request