Escape from Central Asia

This book of twenty narratives by ‘Asia’s master writer’ the Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, can be read merely as an entrancing collection of tales of the East. This is, however, to overlook the fact that they contain some of the most important illustrative and mystical content that he presented during a long life of study and teaching. Soldier, diplomat, medical man, professor and mystic, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah sets his tales, Arabian Nights-style, in a caravan bound for Mecca. Every night, a member of the pilgrimage tells a tale. Each tale contains a priceless nugget: allegory, contemplation-theme or insight.