• Octagon Press was a cross-cultural publishing house based in London, UK. It was founded in 1960 by Sufi teacher, Idries Shah to establish the historical...
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    on magic and witchcraft. In 1960 he established a publishing house, Octagon Press, producing translations of Sufi classics as well as titles of his own...
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    In geometry, an octagon (from Ancient Greek ὀκτάγωνον (oktágōnon) 'eight angles') is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon. A regular octagon has Schläfli symbol...
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    Shah, Idries (1992). Oriental Magic. Octagon Press Ltd. p. 74. ISBN 0-86304-017-9. First published by Octagon Press in 1956. Bennett, John G. (1995). Masters...
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    (1977). The Sufis. Octagon Press. p. 367. ISBN 978-0-86304-020-7. First published 1964. Shah, Idries (1977). The Sufis. Octagon Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-86304-020-7...
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  • Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing. It was first published in 1974 by Octagon Press, and Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. in 1975. It was made into a film in...
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    Marriage, Octagon Press Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2008-11-14. Description of Valley of the Giant Buddhas, Octagon Press Archived...
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    Included in Idries Shah, Tales of the Dervishes ISBN 0-900860-47-2 Octagon Press 1993. Arberry, A.J. (2004-05-09). "71 – The Elephant in the dark, on...
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    Press. 2003. p. 16. Eric John Holmyard. Alchemy Courier Dover Publications, 1990. p. 16. Shah, Idries (1977) [1964]. The Sufis. London, UK: Octagon Press...
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    Islamic Cosmological Doctrines, University of New York Press, passim. Idries Shah, The Sufis, Octagon Press, 1st Ed. 1964. J. H. Brennan, Astral Doorways, Thoth...
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