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Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK) and their children's imprint, Hoopoe Books. Hoopoe provides books and complementary teaching materials to schools and children in Afghanistan, with official permission from Afghanistan's Minister of Education in Kabul. Hoopoe also provides relief for Pakistan.
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Idries Shah set up a charitable agency, Afghan Relief which operated from 1984 to 2002. Its aim was to provide medical, educational and other aid to refugees and Shah wrote books to assist in the operation, some of which are published by
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659:(ARO, founded in 1998 and not to be confused with Shah's original Afghan Relief). These recommended books include several works for children by Idries Shah published by Hoopoe,
295:, born Bacha Saqao, the son of a poor water-carrier, who eventually became King of Afghanistan. A year after being crowned, he was overthrown and executed. His autobiography,
194:. Existing editions of Octagon Press titles will no longer be available. Idries Shah's corpus of work will be relaunched in entirety in new printed and eBook editions."
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The Manipulated Mind : Brainwashing, Conditioning and Indoctrination
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895:. Green Magic. p. 9.
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528:The Walled Garden of Truth
482:. Rumi was a 13th-century
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855:"About the Octagon Press"
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591:The Way of the Seeker
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312:Memoirs of a Survivor
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82:Headquarters location
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893:Fifty Years of Wicca
573:The Niche for Lights
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579:The Abode of Spring
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324:Stanford University
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