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 A Veiled Gazelle – Seeing How to See  by the writer Idries Shah was published by Octagon Press in 1978 and is due to be republished by The Idries Shah Foundation from 1 December 2019.

Jason Webster writes in The Guardian 23 October 2014: "There could not be a more important time for Sufi ideas to be reintroduced. With its concentration, among other things, on awareness and psychological balance –" mindfulness ", if you like – Sufism is a natural antidote to fanaticism." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/23/sufism-natural-antidote-fanaticism-the-sufis-idries-shah

Shortly before he died, Shah stated that his books form a complete course that could fulfil the function he had performed while alive. As such, A Veiled Gazelle can be read as part of a whole course of study.

Summary
A Veiled Gazelle is one of several books by Idries Shah where he presents traditional Sufi teaching stories, selected to suit our contemporary times. These thirty-nine short and often humorous stories, covers subjects like our learning function vs the emotional stimulus function, the importance of time and place, how Sufis teach, the figure of Nim Hakim, hypocrisy, greed, Higher Truth as fatal for the immature, how sound can affect more than words can.

The title comes from ibn Arabi´s The Interpreter of Desires (Tarjumān al-Ashwāq): "And among the wondrous thing is a veiled gazelle: A Divine Subtlety, veiled by a state of the Self".