Sufi Talks Author:Frager, Robert -- Middle East Journal

-- Middle East Journal

over six hundred and fifty years ago

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What does the fourteenth-century North African traveler Ibn Battuta have in common with the American hip hopper Mos Def

The problem confronting the black community is not simply proving that God exists

Sufi Talks Author:Frager, Robert -- Middle East JournalOnce a woman brought her son to the thirteenth century Turkish Sufi master Nasruddin complaining that the boy had an uncontrollable sweet tooth. She asked Nasruddin to tell the boy to stop eating sweets. He said to bring him back in four weeks. When they returned he said, Boy, I order you to stop eating sweets! The mother asked, Couldnt you have said that at the beginning? Why make us wait four weeks? No, I couldnt have said that even two weeks ago,