Blogadmin2025-01-17T14:19:04+00:00 News & Blog AllNewsBlogSharing stories: ISF donates books for a spellbinding eventScheherazade Foundation’s event to mark the first anniversary of the World Story BankExhibition of Guadameci Leather Art by Jorge CentofantiIDRIES SHAH’S CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY – Latest ArticleBorges: An interview with Giovanna ComaniIDRIES SHAH’S CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCHOLOGY – Article 1Happy New Year 2025 – A message from Saira ShahChildren’s books for KenyaISF collaborates with UNESCO Associated Schools NetworkIdries Shah was born 100 years agoSufi Studies: East and West Edited by Professor Rushbrook WilliamsA New Phase for ISF – Saira ShahStunning New Children’s BooksEl-Ghazali’s ‘Alchemy of Happiness’El-Ghazali: The Practical MysticCelebrating The Sufis at 60 – the 20th century’s most influential book on SufismWatch our animated ‘Tale of the Sands’Ibn El-Arabi: A Classical Sufi MasterThe Use of Sufi Stories by Idries ShahPatti Schneider 1934-2023Rumi’s Enduring InfluenceThe Meaning of Rumi’s WorkBlog: Octagon Rumi BacklistWe visit the ‘birthplace’ of Mulla Nasrudin – and the centre of the EarthCelebrating World Storytelling DayWith Sufi ideas under threat ISF is reseeding them through its translations projectInterview: Idries Shah’s books hold the answersBlog: The Importance of Storytelling for ChildrenAubrey Davis, Canadian Writer and Master StorytellerWinners of The Horrible Dib Dib Halloween Drawing Competition!The Horrible Dib Dib Halloween Drawing Competition!Turkish Publishing Deal6,000 Dari Books Donated to Afghans in UKWatch ISF’s UNESCO webinar on the Power of Stories hosted by Saira ShahBlog: How Stories Can Help Exercise Your Child’s Brain by Safia Shah1,000 Books Donated to Children in LAOur Latest Book: The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin in TurkishWatch a new animated version of The Onion read by Safia Shah‘Donate to provide books to Afghan women and girls’ – Saira ShahMeet the Winners of the ISF-UNESCO World Tales Short Story CompetitionAnnouncing the ISF-UNESCO Short Story Competition ShortlistISF Announces Judges for ISF-UNESCO World Tales Story CompetitionBlog: Safia Shah on creating children’s books based on her father’s’ amazing storiesWatch ISF’s first live online webinar event – Risk, hosted by Saira ShahNew Edition: The Englishman’s Handbook by Idries ShahAstronaut Chris Hadfield receives ISF Award‘I witnessed pure wonder’ – Children in Afghanistan receive first booksBlog: Saira Shah on taking her father’s Sufi literature back ‘home’‘The Idries Shah Foundation is doing a commendable job…’5000 ISF children’s books distributed to Afghan childrenBlog: On Idries Shah and Sufism by Steven NightingaleRepublished: The Commanding Self by Idries ShahSir David Attenborough receives the ISF Award for Human AchievementISF-UNESCO World Tales Short Story Competition Launch Collaborations Some of the organisations with which we collaborate and whose work is important in the fields of Literacy, Imagination, and the Humanities
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