Tales of a Modern Sufi: (Record no. 3302)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | PMNP |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250605085042.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250605b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781594772702 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | PMNP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | Kutubkhanah Diraja |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 297.4. |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3501 |
| Personal name | rgin, Nevit Oguz |
| Dates associated with a name | 1928-2015 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Tales of a Modern Sufi: |
| Remainder of title | The Invisible Fence of Reality and Other Stories |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Nevit O. Ergin |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Rochester Vermont |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Inner Traditions |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 160p |
| Dimensions | 6 x 0.4 x 9 inches |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Sufi stories have traditionally been a means of opening a portal that allows us to advance from our basic perceptions into states of extraordinary awareness. This collection of deceptively simple stories by renowned Rumi translator and Sufi Nevit Ergin has the ability to remove readers’ complacent sense of self and identity and to expand their ordinary awareness of reality from every possible direction. In his stories the primrose path we travel suddenly turns into a trickster’s hall of mirrors where we learn that we are not children of Adam and Eve so much as children of our perceptions.<br/><br/>The protagonists and antagonists of these stories are constantly morphing and exchanging places. They exist in a world where individuals are stalked by a cricket that is an “invisible monster with the face of a demon,” confront the ambiguous burden of ridding oneself of one’s own corpse, and discover the “invisible fence of reality” existing in the layers of a discarded piece of art. The symbols in these stories are booby traps designed to release the mind from the sense of its own importance and awaken the realization that “if you refuse to be born, you cannot die.” Blind faith, the author says, has proved itself incapable of producing wisdom, tolerance, or world peace. This is because the answers to humanity’s problems lie beyond our ordinary perception and require love and ecstasy to be made visible. Our thirst for wisdom and understanding must go to the fountain of universal truth. These stories provide water from that fountain. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| 9 (RLIN) | 767 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Sufism |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Perbadanan Muzium Negeri Pahang | Annexe Office | Annexe | 06/05/2025 | 297.4. | 2025-0127 | 06/05/2025 | 06/05/2025 | Books |