Part of a wider initiative, The Idries Shah Foundation had begun to make available new paperback, ebook and audiobook editions of Shah's Shah's 35 or so main titles in English, along with translations into other Western and Eastern languages [REF].
In 2014, The Idries Shah Foundation also freely distributed 32,000 books by Idries Shah, together with related Eastern classics, to schools, universities and public libraries in Afghanistan [REF].