Memoirs of a Dervish
Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties
Robert Irwin
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Beschreibung
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.
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I could not put down <i>Memoirs of a Dervish</i> until I had read it twice over. This is a brilliant, free-ranging, mind-enhancing, life-cautioning book. Beware.
The richness of texture and tone...coupled with the unusual nature of the story...make <i>Memoirs of a Dervish</i> compelling, fascinating and enriching.
An extraordinary book.
s eyes to possibilities, which was what the 1960s vibe was about, after all.
<i>Memoirs of a Dervish</i> - charged with life, humanity and humour - opens one'
<i>Memoirs of a Dervish</i> - charged with life, humanity and humour - opens one'
A fascinating journey into the spirit and adventure of the sixties by someone who was there, and who, luckily for us, remembered every extraordinary thing.
roll.
Packed with extraordinary characters and incidents as well as (this being the sixties) a generous helping of drugs, sex and rock 'n'
Packed with extraordinary characters and incidents as well as (this being the sixties) a generous helping of drugs, sex and rock 'n'
s memoir is a fabulously entertaining tale.
Robert Irwin'
Robert Irwin'
s witty, casually erudite tribute to his clever, naïve youth shows that there are no shortcuts to wisdom. But if often comes with age.
Irwin'
Irwin'
Irwin brilliantly conjures up the mood of the late Sixties, with its blind innocence, fanciful enthusiasms and blissful music...For the reader, the journey - and the fall - is an illuminating and immensely engrossing one.
This is a heady, insightful and melancholy trip.
What emerges here is a tale as fluid and as finally mysterious as the life it recounts...Here, at last, Irwin may have found a truly perennial philosophy.
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