Empire's son, empire's orphan : the fantastical lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah /

Empire's son, empire's orphan : the fantastical lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah /

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Author / Creator:	Green, Nile, author.
Imprint:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] ©2024
Description:	369 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Shah, Ikbal Ali, -- Sirdar. Shah, Idries, -- 1924-1996. Islam in literature. Sufism in literature. Authors, Indic -- Great Britain -- Biography. East Indians -- Great Britain -- Biography. Muslims -- Great Britain -- Biography. Muslims -- India -- History. Afghanistan -- History -- Errors, inventions, etc. Afghanistan -- In literature. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13508456

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ISBN:	1324002417 9781324002413
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-355) and index.
Summary:	"A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West's obsession with a fabricated, exotic East. Claiming to come from Afghanistan, Ikbal and Idries Shah convinced spies, poets, orientalists, diplomats, occultists, hippies, and even a prime minister that they held the keys to understanding the Muslim world. Gambling with the currency of cultural authenticity, father and son became master players of the great game of empire and its aftermath as their careers extended from colonial India and wartime Oxford to swinging London and literary New York. Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan unravels a quagmire of aliases and pseudonyms, fantastical pasts and self-aggrandizing anecdotes, high stakes and bold schemes that painted the defining portrait of Afghanistan for almost a century. From George Orwell directing Muslim propaganda to Robert Graves translating a fake manuscript of Omar Khayyam and Doris Lessing supporting jihad, Nile Green tells the fascinating tale of how the world was beguiled by the dream of an Afghan Shangri-La that never existed." --

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