Idries Shah (Sayed Idries el-Hashimi) (1924–1996) - entrepreneur and author of hundreds of texts, direct descendant of Muhammad (according to one version) and scientific director of the Institute for the Study of Cultures, founder of the publishing house and Teacher, Privy Councilor rulers of the eastern empires, a man who was one of the first to reveal the secret knowledge of Sufism to the West. What is the secret of the Great Sheikh of Sufis, who lived in London in a house with tapestries on the walls and washed down a completely European steak with English ale? Where is the mystery, the exotic, the secret knowledge? Maybe there, behind the facade of the biography, there is a parable about his true life?