Шах Тахир.

Биография

Тахир Шах - Tahir Shah (на персидском: طاهر شاه), né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (на арабском: سيد طاهر الهاشمي) родился 16 ноября 1966 года в Лондоне. С 2003 года живёт в Касабланке, Марокко.

Шах родился в известной сайидской семье, которая имела свое фамильное гнездо, дом недалеко от Кабула, в Пагмане. Его дед по отцовской линии, Sayyid Amjad Ali Shah, был навабом (наместником) в Сардхане, северо-индийском штате Уттар Прадеша.

The principality was awarded to his ancestor Jan-Fishan Khan during the British Raj, and had been ruled formerly by the Kashmiri-born warrior-princess, the Begum Samru.

Tahir Shah is the son of the well-known Sufi teacher and writer Idries Shah, and the grandson of the writer and diplomat Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. His elder sister is the award-winning documentary filmmaker Saira Shah. He also has a twin sister, Safia Nafisa Shah.

Born and brought up in Britain, Shah says he was encouraged from an early age to never follow the pack, and to strive for originality. His father believed strongly that education was about more than school lessons, and was something that continues after childhood throughout one's life. This sense of a quest for knowledge colours all of Shah's work, most notably his travel literature.

Tahir Shah was educated at Bryanston School, Dorset, England and at universities in London, Nairobi and San Diego. He left London for Morocco in 2003. Today, he lives in Casablanca with his wife, Rachana, and their two children, Ariane and Timur, in a large home named Dar Khalifa, set in the middle of a "sprawling shantytown".
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* The Middle East Bedside Book
* Beyond the Devil's Teeth
* Sorcerer's Apprentice
* Trail of Feathers
* In Search of King Solomon's Mines
* House of the Tiger King
* The Caliph's House
* In Arabian Nights