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The Elephant in the Dark

Christianity, Islam and the Sufis

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The Elephant in the Dark

By: Idries Shah
Narrated by: David Ault
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In a darkened room, a group of men once sought to examine an elephant.

Taking hold of a different part - an ear, a leg, the tail - each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness each of the men became convinced that the elephant was the object he had felt - a fan, a rope, a pillar, and so on.

With this ancient fable, first described by the Sufi Master Jalaluddin Rumi, Idries Shah presents the Sufi perspective that Christianity and Islam stem from one inner origin.

Based on Shah's celebrated Geneva University lectures, this book dazzles with the breadth of its scholarship and the profound depth of its message.

In a world riven by cultural and religious differences, The Elephant in the Dark offers fresh thinking, hope, and the ability to look at what we think we know in new ways.

©1974 The Estate of Idries Shah (P)2016 The Idries Shah Foundation Eastern Philosophy Spirituality Middle Ages Elephant
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A deeply moving book showing how Christians and Muslims can find common ground in surrender to God. It is even more relevant today than when it was first published. David Ault's reading is all you could wish for.

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