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Language English Pages 159 Country United Kingdom | 3.8/5 Goodreads Publication date 1966, 1998 Originally published 1966 Page count 159 OCLC 39633686 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Victor Gollancz, Malor Books Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) ISBN 1-883536-16-2 (2nd ed. paperback) Similar The Gurdjieff Work, Teachings of Gurdjieff - a pupil's j, Beelzebub's Tales to His Gran, Meetings with Remarka, The Herald of Coming Good | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"
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.