The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah (1985).pdf

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The Subtleties
of
the Inimitable
MULLA
RUDIN
by
!DRIES SHAH
TIIE OCTAGON PRESS
LONDON
Copyright © 1983 Octagon Press Ltd.
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ISBN 0 863040 40 3
First Published 1973
First Impression in this edition 1985
Reprinted 1989
Reprinted 1993
Reprinted
1999
Printed in Great Britain by
Redwood Books, Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Contents
Radio
3
4
5
Miracles have details
The water shortage
Wife and secretary
How to keep it going
8
Cooking
28
Must be one of them
IO
24
25
26
27
29
Where there's a will . . .
I might do you a favour
Needs
A bite
Gossip
Satisfied
Costly
6
9
11
12
The end of the world
Mistaken identity
What's left
13
15
17
First time
Diversion
The marsh
18
20
21
22
31
30
32
The true and the false
33
34
35
36
14
16
Tried to fool him
Problems of loneliness
Arabic scholar
The forester
The problems of delay
It takes one to know one
Get the facts straight
Cow with calf
19
Let's have it every day
The value of the man
Clearing the matter up
Hold that wolf
23
How to get out of trouble
Large and small
Watch out!
Stop-Go
42
43
40
41
They don't work
Temperatures
39
37
38
What could become of what
Time
44
45
46
47
48
Tyranny of the majority
A matter of language
Too late
Memory
74
75
76
78
77
73
72
Feedback
Psychology
When to do what
The speed-traveller
It depends how you
look at it
Warning
49
50
A hundred years
Nine donkeys
I only hope I'm ill
5I
Donkey lost
Freakish
8I
80
The illness of my wife
52
53
55
79
Don't jump to conclusions
Smooth trees
Two for one
Myself
Salute
54
56
57
58
59
60
The Company's time
Grey and white
Esoteric
Names
84
85
87
88
86
Automation
The chalk
So hot
I s i t me?
Ambition
63
65
Copyist
Service
Shoes
No relative
94
95
96
89
90
9I
92
93
83
82
One man's meat
The clock
Not a good pupil
Ethological reflection
Quality and quantity
Social conscience
Bath song
How much?
62
64
6I
Lost property
Wife, thief and donkey
The election meeting
it
66
That's why they appreciate
A reason for everything
What you hadn't thought
of. . .
68
69
70
7I
Motive power
Camel fodder
67
Two halves
The trip
98
Problem of communication
The same strength
Second thoughts
The will of Allah
99
Ioo
IOI
I02
97
The right requirements
How to catch Nasrudin
Acknowledgments
any Nasrudin enthusiasts throughout the
world have helped in the assembling of these
tales. Their contribution has included trans-
lation, tape-recording, comparing variants, reciting stories,
visiting immigrant communities and literary research.
I
wish to thank all of them. Representatives are the
following: Abdel-Karim Suhraverdi, Khan Abdul Karim
Khan, Gote Evald Andersson, Sufi Anwar Ali Shah,
Sardar M. Aqil Hussain Khan,
Barias,
Don Ismael
Benasar, Sir Edwin Chapman-Andrews, M. K. Chaudhury,
Helena Edwards, Sheikh Fakhruddin al-Amudi, Sharif
Faris el-Helebi,
Feroz Abdali, Leon Flamholc,
Hazrat
M
Hafiz Abdullah, Bay Ilderim, Sayyid Iskandar, Jasim El
Aneizi, Edward P. Lumsden, David Wade, Yar M. Khan
and Dr Zeki el-Mahassini.

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