The Elephant in the Dark

<p>In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant.</p><p>Taking hold of a different part – an ear a leg the tail – each one mistook his particular part for the whole. In the darkness each of the men became convinced that the elephant was the object he himself had felt – a fan a rope a pillar – and so on.</p><p>With this ancient fable first described by the Sufi Master Jalaluddin Rumi Idries Shah presents the Sufi perspective that Christianity and Islam stem from one inner origin.</p><p>Based on Shah’s celebrated Geneva University lectures this book dazzles with the breadth of its scholarship and the profound depth of its message.</p><p>In a world riven by cultural and religious differences <em>The Elephant in the Dark</em> offers fresh thinking hope and the ability to look at what we think we know in new ways.</p>