Memoirs of a Dervish
Title | Memoirs of a Dervish PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Irwin |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2011-04-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1847654045 |
In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric topics under a holy fool possessed of telepathic powers. A series of meditations on the nature of mystical experience run through this memoir. But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.
Memoirs of a Dervish
Title | Memoirs of a Dervish PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Irwin |
Publisher | Profile Books(GB) |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-04-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781861979919 |
Robert Irwin's fascinating journey between London and Algeria into the spirit and adventure of the 1960's
Dervish Dust
Title | Dervish Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn L. Coburn |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2021-12 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1640125000 |
Dervish Dust is the authorized biography of "cool cat" actor James Coburn, covering his career, romances, friendships, and spirituality. Thoroughly researched with unparalleled access to Coburn's friends and family, the book's foundation is his own words in the form of letters, poetry, journals, interviews, and his previously unpublished memoirs, recorded in the months before his passing. Dervish Dust details the life of a Hollywood legend that spanned huge changes in the entertainment and filmmaking industry. Coburn grew up in Compton after his family moved from Nebraska to California during the Great Depression. His acting career began with guest character roles in popular TV series such as The Twilight Zone, Bonanza, and Rawhide. In the 1960s Coburn was cast in supporting roles in such great pictures as The Magnificent Seven, Charade, and The Great Escape, and he became a leading man with the hit Our Man Flint. In 1999 Coburn won an Academy Award for his performance in Affliction. Younger viewers will recognize him as the voice of Henry Waternoose, the cranky boss in Monsters, Inc., and as Thunder Jack in Snow Dogs. An individualist and deeply thoughtful actor, Coburn speaks candidly about acting, show business, people he liked, and people he didn't, with many behind-the-scenes stories from his work, including beloved classics, intellectually challenging pieces, and less well-known projects. His films helped dismantle the notorious Production Code and usher in today's ratings system. Known for drum circles, playing the gong, and participating in LSD research, Coburn was New Age before it had a name. He brought his motto, Go Bravely On, with him each time he arrived on the set in the final years of his life, when he did some of his best work, garnering the admiration of a whole new generation of fans.
American Dervish
Title | American Dervish PDF eBook |
Author | Ayad Akhtar |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-01-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316192821 |
From the author of Homeland Elegies and Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced, a stirring and explosive novel about an American Muslim family in Wisconsin struggling with faith and belonging in the pre-9/11 world. Hayat Shah is a young American in love for the first time. His normal life of school, baseball, and video games had previously been distinguished only by his Pakistani heritage and by the frequent chill between his parents, who fight over things he is too young to understand. Then Mina arrives, and everything changes. American Dervish is a brilliantly written, nuanced, and emotionally forceful look inside the interplay of religion and modern life.
Tales of the Dervishes
Title | Tales of the Dervishes PDF eBook |
Author | Idries Shah |
Publisher | Octagon Press Ltd |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Sufi parables |
ISBN | 0900860472 |
A mysterious chest is buried unopened. A wondrous caravan brings fortune to a simple cobbler. An outcast princess creates a new life in the wilderness. Some of the 78 tales in this remarkable book first appeared in print over a thousand years ago; others are medieval classics. Yet each has a special relevance for us at the dawn of the 21st century. All are told with Idries Shah's distinctive wit and grace and the author's own commentary notes. These are teaching stories in the Sufi tradition. Those who probe beyond the surface will find multiple meanings to challenge assumptions and foster new ways of thinking and perceiving. Tales of the Dervishes is essential reading for anyone interested in Sufi thought, the significance and history of tales, or simply superb entertainment.
The Dervish
Title | The Dervish PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Kazan |
Publisher | Opus Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781623160043 |
An American war widow seeks emotional asylum with her sister at the American Consulate in Constantinople during the Allied occupation in 1919. Through a crossstitched pattern of synchronicity Kazan's heroine becomes a vital thread in the fate of Mustafa Kemal (later Ataturk) and his battle for his country's freedom. Based on firsthand accounts of the Turkish nationalist resistance, The Dervish details the extraordinary events that culminated in 1923 with the creation of the Republic of Turkey.--Publisher.
Duty
Title | Duty PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Gates |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 673 |
Release | 2014-01-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307959481 |
From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vivid account of serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House, he thought he’d long left Washington politics behind: After working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Security Council, he was happily serving as president of Texas A&M University. But when he was asked to help a nation mired in two wars and to aid the troops doing the fighting, he answered what he felt was the call of duty.