{"product_id":"9781784791070","title":"The Elephant in the Dark: Christianity, Islam and the Sufis","description":"In a darkened room a group of men once sought to examine an elephant.\u003cp\u003eTaking 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Shah's celebrated Geneva University lectures, this book dazzles with the breadth of its scholarship, and the profound depth of its message.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world riven by cultural and religious differences, The Elephant in the Dark offers fresh thinking, hope, and the ability to look at what we think we know in new ways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ISF Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180069404912,"sku":"9781784791070","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784791070_p0.jpg?v=1763726528","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784791070","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}