The Teachers of Gurdjieff

The Teachers of Gurdjieff
Author Rafael Lefort
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Publisher Victor Gollancz, Malor Books
Publication date
1966, 1998
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 159
ISBN 1-883536-16-2 (2nd ed. paperback)
OCLC 39633686
197 21
LC Class BP605.G94 G87 1998

The Teachers of Gurdjieff is a book by Rafael Lefort that describes a journey to the middle east and central Asia in search of the sources of G. I. Gurdjieff's teaching, and culminates in the author's own spiritual awakening, by meeting and "opening" to the teachings of the Naqshbandi Sufis.

The book is considered by many to be a product of the Sufi school associated with Idries Shah and his brother Omar Ali-Shah. The Gurdjieff biographer James Moore described the book as a "distasteful fabrication" [1]

The book first appeared in 1966 from the British publishing house Victor Gollancz. A second edition was published in 1998 by Malor Books under the editorial directorship of Robert Ornstein, a prominent American associate of Idries Shah. A Spanish version has been published by Alif Publishing Corp., which publishes many of Omar Ali-Shah's works, and a Portuguese one by Edições Dervish. A French version ("Les maîtres de Gurdjieff") has been published by Le Courrier du Livre in 1977.

Notes

  1. Neo-Sufism: The Case of Idries Shah, first published in Religion Today magazine


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