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Seller: strangebeautifulvinylbooks ✉️ (2,376) 98.8%, Location: Utica, New York, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 256168405711 Occultism Its Theory & Practice Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah 1959 Magick Grimore Wicca. When Ikbal Ali Shah's wife died in 1960, he moved from Britain to Morocco, spending the last decade of his life in Tangier. [ Magick ] SHAH, Sirdar Ikbal Ali. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah (Hindi: सरदार इक़बाल अली शाह, Urdu: سردار اقبال علی شاہ; 1894 in Sardhana, India – 4 November 1969 in Tangier, Morocco) was an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Sadaat of Paghman. [ Magick ] SHAH, Sirdar Ikbal Ali. Occultism: Its Theory and Practice. Concentrates much more on the grimoires and their content than other similar studies - and also apparently contains much on Indian and Arabic magic that was not readily available elsewhere. Contents include: History and Development, Dedication Rites and Implements, The Heptameron of Peter de Abano, Infernal Evocation and Demonology, Witches and Sorcerers, The Devil, White Magic, Spells, Alchemy, Conjurtion, Possession and Exorcism. Appendices. 'Ancient British Laws against the Black Art,' and 'The Vampire. Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah (Hindi: सरदार इक़बाल अली शाह, Urdu: سردار اقبال علی شاہ; 1894 in Sardhana, India – 4 November 1969 in Tangier, Morocco) was an Indian-Afghan author and diplomat descended from the Sadaat of Paghman. Born and educated in India, he came to Britain as a young man to continue his education in Edinburgh, where he married a young Scotswoman. Travelling widely, Ikbal Ali Shah undertook assignments for the British Foreign Office and became a publicist for a number of Eastern statesmen, penning biographies of Kemal Atatürk, the Aga Khan and others. His other writing includes lighter works such as travel narratives and tales of adventure, as well as more serious works on Sufism, Islam and Asian politics. He hoped that Sufism might "form a bridge between the Western and the Eastern ways of thinking"; familiar with both cultures, much of his life and writing was devoted to furthering greater cross-cultural understanding. Ikbal Ali Shah fathered three children, all of whom became notable writers themselves; his son Idries Shah became particularly well known and acclaimed as a writer and teacher of Sufism in the West. When Ikbal Ali Shah's wife died in 1960, he moved from Britain to Morocco, spending the last decade of his life in Tangier. He died in a road accident in Morocco, aged 75. Life Family origins Ikbal Ali Shah was born into a family of Musavi Saiyeds (descendants of the Prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatimah and also through Musa al-Kadhim, the great-great-grandson of Husayn ibn Ali and seventh Imam of the Twelver Shi'a sect of Islam).[1] The family originated from Paghman near Kabul, Afghanistan.[1] In 1840, Ali Shah's great-grandfather was awarded the title Jan-Fishan Khan for his support of Shah Shuja, a puppet ruler installed by the British.[1] In 1841, following the defeat of the British, Jan-Fishan Khan was forced to leave Afghanistan.[1] The British-Indian government rewarded his loyalty with an estate in Sardhana, Uttar Pradesh, which thereafter became the family seat.[1] Ali Shah's granddaughter Saira Shah relates that her grandfather "maintained that ancestry was something to try to live up to, not to boast about" and told her that "it is less important who your forebears were than what you yourself become."[2] Education and marriage Ali Shah was educated in Britain before the World War I.[3][4] He met his future wife Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah (pseudonym: Morag Murray Abdullah, b. 1900)[5] during the war, while engaged in an unsuccessful attempt to study medicine at Edinburgh Medical School.[1][6] They eloped while she was only sixteen; her family did not approve of the match, and her father never spoke to her again.[4][7] Ali Shah's own father, asked to give his consent to the marriage, enquired by telegram "whether she was prepared to become a Muslim and whether she would be able to defend a fortress, if required."[7] She answered yes on both counts; satisfied, he gave his blessing.[7] The young couple subsequently had three children, the Sufi writers and translators Amina Shah (b. 1918), Omar Ali-Shah (b. 1922) and Idries Shah (b. 1924). Traveller, writer, diplomat and publicist In 1918, Ali Shah became only the second Asian to join the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, contributing articles on Islam to the Society's journal.[8] He travelled widely and became a publicist for a variety of Eastern statesmen such as President Kemal Atatürk of Turkey, King Abdullah of Jordan, King Fuad I of Egypt, the Emir Abdul Illah of Iraq and members of the royal family of Afghanistan.[1] He was on friendly terms with both orthodox leaders (like the Rector of Azhar University in Cairo) and reformers (like Kemal Atatürk).[9] Ali Shah was also a friend of Inayat Khan and involved in an unsuccessful attempt to set up an Islamic branch of the latter's Sufi Movement in London in 1918;[10] after Khan's death, he criticised the Sufi Movement's universalist attitude, writing in Islamic Sufism (1933), "A Sufi must of necessity be a moslem" and adding that Sufism should not be confused with "such non-Islamic movements which due to utter ignorance are styled Sufism".[11] Ikbal Ali Shah believed that Bolshevism's encroachment on the countries of Central Asia would almost inevitably lead to catastrophic results, and by 1921 was reporting in the Edinburgh Review on the methods of propaganda and political influence used by the Bolshevists in Central Asia and Afghanistan, with its consequences for British rule in India.[12][better source needed] He was also associated with the British Foreign Office for several decades.[4] James Moore states that his work for the Foreign Office occasionally raised controversy: in 1929, after Ali Shah "tried to compromise" the British Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, Foreign Office investigations concluded that there "was hardly a word of truth in his writings".[4] Ali Shah was a passionate advocate of the modernisation of Islam.[13] He viewed this as nothing more and nothing less than a return to genuine Islam, an Islam without a priest class, writing in 1929: "In the New Dark Age of my faith, from which we have just emerged into the sunny vistas of real religion, a curious politico-religious system had grown; and it is indeed by reason of our forebears having been seen so long under that influence that the average European wonders whether we have not definitely divorced Islam by our modernization. The truth is that the organization of the Doctors of Moslem Law, backed by autocratic Eastern monarchs was the very antithesis of the words of the Koran. In Turkey, for instance, no man was permitted to consult the Holy Book of Islam and seek interpretation for himself; despite the fact that the only reason for which the faithful places his book above every other Revealed Law is that any man can have his cue directly from it. The Prophet himself emphasized this fact repeatedly and thereby meant to destroy the human tendency of priestcraft. This particular teaching was so deep that it was not until many political cross-currents amongst the Moslem States had much weakened the spiritual essence that the clergy at last won the battle which they had fought for at least a thousand years."[13] Justifying Turkey's modernisation efforts under Kemal Atatürk, Ali Shah condemned what Islam had become in Turkey: "Even the slightest divergence from the established church was considered the highest crime; and the faithful wandered in and out of the four water-tight compartments of schools of theology completely dazed by the priest-made dogma that neither would reconcile with the early teachings of Islam nor ring true to the advancing humanity of the present age. The clergy made every effort to circumscribe the view of every Moslim and placed the right of interpretation beyond the reach of even the intelligent seeker after truth."[14] He noted with approval that – "When ecclesiastics frowned upon women parading the streets in Stamboul, the young men were able to silence the objections by quoting the Koran to prove that the Koran enjoined only modesty and not the cruel practice of closing women in the houses."[13] In the 1930s he was in Geneva, working in collaboration with the League of Nations supporting disarmament,[15] and attending the European Muslim Congress of 1935, promoting Islamic unity.[16] According to Augy Hayter (a student of Ikbal's son Omar Ali-Shah) the Sirdar's connection with the League of Nations began in its early days when he was working with professor Gilbert Murray and the Agha Khan, and records of his contributions and position as a "respected intellectual" of the time can be found in the Unesco archives in Paris.[17] Ikbal Ali Shah was also a member of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society.[15] By contributing to the work of such organisations, he aimed to bridge the gap between east and west. In 1937, he wrote: "... since my early days I have striven to interpret the East to the West, and Europe to Asia. Through this, I believe, lies the way of mutual sympathy between the nations; and such can only be accomplished by means of reading the effusions of one another's Great Minds; because if we but endeavour to understand about our fellow men, good will can come as the gentle dawn of peace."[18] In 1940, the family moved from London to Oxford to escape German bombing.[4] In 1945, Ali Shah and his son Idries travelled to Uruguay as expert advisors on halalled meat questions for the India Office; a scandal resulted, leading the British ambassador to describe him as a "swindler".[4] Latter years Ikbal Ali Shah later taught Sufi "classes" in England, which were the precursors to the Sufi school established by his son, Idries Shah. He was also appointed by Dr. Zakir Husain as India's cultural representative in all of West Asia.[15] According to his grandson Tahir, Ali Shah was heartbroken when his wife died in 1960, aged 59; feeling unable to continue living in the places in which they had shared their lives, he moved to Tangier in Morocco, a place they had never visited together, and lived there in a small villa close to the seafront.[19] L. F. Rushbrook Williams, a British scholar bound to Ali Shah through a friendship spanning more than half a century, attributes Ali Shah's move to Morocco to a tightening of British residence regulations and says that Ali Shah, never having acquired British domicile, was obliged to leave behind the study centre for Sufism that he had set up in England.[20] Near the end of his life, Ali Shah was caught up in the controversy surrounding the 1967 publication of a new translation of Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat by his son Omar Ali-Shah and the English poet Robert Graves.[21] The translation was based on an annotated "crib" made by Omar Ali-Shah, who asserted that it derived from an old manuscript said to have been in the Shah family's possession for 800 years.[22] L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an orientalist at Edinburgh University, expressed his conviction that the story of the ancient family manuscript was false.[21][22] Graves believed that the disputed manuscript was in the possession of Ikbal Ali Shah, and that he was about to produce it at the time of his death from a road accident, to allay the growing controversy surrounding the translation.[21] However, the manuscript never was produced.[21] Richard Perceval Graves describes how, in a letter to Robert Graves in 1970, Idries Shah pointed out that "production of the MSS would prove nothing, because there would be no way of telling whether it was original, or whether someone had washed the writing from a piece of ancient parchment, and then applied a new text using inert inks." Shah believed that the critics were "intent only on opposition" and said he agreed with his father, who had been so infuriated by the "hyaenas" that he wanted nothing to do with the controversy.[23] O'Prey (1984) writes that this last point was not entirely true: Ikbal Ali Shah had in fact written to Graves from Morocco, saying the manuscript should be produced; Graves then forwarded the letter to Omar Ali-Shah.[24] Unfortunately, he neglected to take a copy; Omar never received the letter, and Ikbal Ali Shah died a few days later.[24] The scholarly consensus today is that the "Jan-Fishan Khan" manuscript was a hoax, and that the Graves/Shah translation was in fact based on a study of the sources of FitzGerald's work by Victorian amateur scholar Edward Heron-Allen.[4][25][26][27] The affair did considerable damage to Graves' reputation.[27] On 4 November 1969, Ikbal Ali Shah was struck by a reversing Coca-Cola truck in Tangier.[19] He was rushed to hospital unconscious, but died a few hours later.[19] He was buried in England next to his wife. On his gravestone, along with his name, there is only the appellation "Al Mutawakkil", which means "the one who resigns himself to the will of the Almighty."[28] Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah's obituary in The Times of Saturday, 8 November 1969 stated: Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah died on Tuesday in a motor accident in Morocco. He was 75. The son of The Nawab Amjed Ali Shah of Sardhana, India, he was born in 1894, and educated at the Nawab’s School, at Aligarh, Oxford and Edinburgh. Between 1928 and 1960 he published in English alone over 20 books on Eastern questions and personages, philosophy and letters. He was a close friend and biographer of Kemal Atatürk, Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, and the late Aga Khan, among others. He had contributed articles to The Times on many occasions. In 1960, the Indian Council for Cultural Relations appointed him Professor on a special cultural mission to the countries of North Africa and West Asia, with headquarters in Morocco. He leaves two sons and a daughter; his heir is Idries Shah.[29] Writings In keeping with his theme of interpreting the East to the West, Ikbal Ali Shah authored travel narratives of his adventures in Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries, such as Alone in Arabian Nights (1933), and set up fiction-writing workshops to disseminate Eastern stories and tales in books like Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East (1937).[30] He wrote biographies of major leaders in the Islamic World, such as Kemal: Maker of Modern Turkey (1934) and Controlling Minds of Asia (1937), as well as anthropological, historical and political works like Afghanistan of the Afghans (1928), Pakistan: A Plan for India (1944) and Vietnam (1960). Many of his works were anthologies of literature from the East, such as The Book of Oriental Literature (1937) and Oriental Caravan (1933), while other works sought to elucidate Eastern religious and mystical traditions, with an emphasis on Sufism, as in Spirit of the East (1939), Lights of Asia (1937), and Islamic Sufism (1933). He also authored books specifically on Islam, like Mohammed: The Prophet (1932) and Selections from the Koran (1933). Octagon Press published compilations of his tales and adventures in the books Escape From Central Asia (1980) and The Golden Caravan (1983). The latter two books also include selections from the Sirdar's writings which had previously been published under the names Sheikh Ahmed Abdullah, Rustam Khan-Urf, Bahloal Dana and Ibn Amjed. Altogether, Ikbal Ali Shah was author of more than fifty books, including: Eastern Moonbeams (1918) Briton in India (1918) Afghanistan of the Afghans (1927) Westward to Mecca (1928) Eastward to Persia (1930) The Golden East (1931) Arabia (1931) Turkey (with Julius R. van Millingen, 1932) Mohamed: The Prophet (1932) Selections from the Koran (1933) Islamic Sufism (1933) Alone in Arabian Nights (1933) Oriental Caravan (1933) The Golden Pilgrimage (1933) The Tragedy of Amanullah (1933) The Prince Aga Khan (1933) Kemal: Maker of Modern Turkey (1934) Lights of Asia (1934) Afridi Gold (1934) Fuad: King of Egypt (1936) Coronation Book of Oriental Literature (1937) The Controlling Minds of Asia (1937) Modern Afghanistan (1938) Nepal: Home of the Gods (1938) Golden Treasury of Indian Literature (1938) Spirit of the East (1939) Pakistan: A Plan for India (1944) Occultism: Its theory and practice (1952) Viet Nam (1960) Escape from Central Asia (1980) The Golden Caravan (1983) According to his grandson Tahir Shah, the Sirdar also published Through the Garden of Allah (1938) under the pseudonym of John Grant. A revised edition entitled Travels in the Unknown East was published by Octagon Press in 1992.
  • Condition: Very Good condition some wear to the dust jacket book is very clean.
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Place of Publication: New York
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: Illustrated
  • Region: North America
  • Author: Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
  • Publisher: Castle
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Topic: Occult
  • Subject: Religion & Spirituality
  • Year Printed: 1959
  • Original/Facsimile: Original

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