Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

Idries Shah

• Publisher: ISF Publishing
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781784790325
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy

The appeal of Nasrudin is as universal and timeless as the truths he illustrates. His stories are read by children, by scientists and scholars, and by followers of philosophy. Idries Shah assembled this collection of Nasrudin's trials and tribulations from ancient manuscripts and oral literature, from sources in North Africa and Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Many were known to the great Sufi masters, Rumi, Jami, and Attar the chemist.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Content Page
• Dedication
• Introduction
• The Reason
• Eating His Money
• The Use of a Light
• Why Don’t You?
• Prudence
• Assumptions
• Just Suppose…
• Alternate Crop
• Tit for Tat
• Whose Servant Am I?
• Inscrutable Fate
• The Answer
• Idiots
• If Allah Wills It
• A Great Thought
• The Exploit
• The Hunt
• Both, Your Majesty!
• Forgotten Himself
• Not So Difficult
• Obligation
• Fixed Ideas
• There Is a Different Time-Scale
• Man Bites Dog – That’s News
• Just as Well I Came Along
• Strange That You Should Ask...
• Avoid Entanglement
• How Foolish Can a Man Be?
• Cause and Effect
• That’s Why They Bunged It Up
• The Burden of Guilt
• Description of the Goods
• More Useful
• Which Is My Half?
• Learn How to Learn
• Face the Facts
• Congratulations
• Too-Obvious Principles
• When You Face Things Alone
• The Roles of Man
• Dry in the Rain
• What Is Real Evidence?
• Behind the Obvious
• Objectivity
• Nobody Complains...
• How Far Can You Usefully Be from the Truth?
• I Believe You Are Right!
• It Appears to Be Thou!
• Ladder for Sale
• Why Camels Have No Wings
• The Gold, The Cloak and The Horse
• Give Him Time
• The Yogi, The Priest and The Sufi
• Remembering
• Refutation of the Philosophers
• Ask Me Another
• The Reward
• The High Cost of Learning
• The Spiritual Teacher
• Hot Soup, Cold Hands
• A Word for It
• Science
• A Question Is an Answer
• Aren’t We All?
• The Value of Truth
• Take No Chances
• Guess What?
• The Merchant
• Don’t Run Away with the Idea…
• The Chickens
• Prayer Is Better than Sleep...
• What Is to Be
• The Logician
• Once Bitten
• Good News
• The Dog at His Feet
• Facts Are Facts
• Not to Be Taken Away
• Not My Business to Know
• Not as Easy as It Seems
• Repetitiousness
• Never Miss a Bargain
• The Omen That Worked
• The Change
• The Value of a Desire
• When to Worry
• Or Else...
• How Long Is Too Long?
• Anachronism
• No Time to Waste
• Altruism
• Perhaps There Is a Road Up There
• The Announcement
• What Is Above and What Is Below...
• The Speculator
• Louder than an Ox
• I Did Not Start It
• In the Mosque
• Eggs
• Allah Will Provide
• The School
• Clairvoyance
• Invisible Extension
• Mistaken Identity
• Deductive Reasoning
• Let It Be Wheat
• The Genius
• Why?
• It Is What He Says That Counts
• What Will He Find?
• Just for the Asking
• We Come and We Go
• The Karkorajami
• The Smell of a Thought
• The Burglar
• A Matter of Time, Not Place
• All in My Wife’s Name
• Waiting for the Yeast to Rise
• Even Fire
• Later than You Think
• On His Own
• Limits of Perception
• Which Way Round?
• The Milkman’s Horse
• What Is it All for?
• Pyramid Expert
• Where I Sit
• Anyone Can Do It That Way
• Life and Death
• A Penny Less to Pay
• Why Ask Me?
• The Daughters
• All Included
• Why Shouldn’t They Mourn?
• Not Worth Keeping
• The Physician
• Appetite
• The Secret
• Maximum Capacity
• Battle of the Sexes
• At the Frontier
• Try Anything Once
• Seven with One Stroke
• Raw Material
• Catch Your Rabbit
• Pity the Poor Natives
• How Far Is Far Enough?
• Economic Law
• Private Property
• Tie up Below!
• Fire
• Instinct
• The Question Contains Its Answer
• Nosebags and Donkeys
• The Mulla’s Dream
• The King Spoke to Me
• Nobody Really Knows
• Truth
• Last Year’s Nests
• Head and Heels
• Just in Case
• Old Graves for New
• Nasrudin’s Will
• Incomplete
• The Mulla’s Tomb
• A Request