ABSTRACT

There is a story from a classic of Islamic spirituality 2 about four quarrelling travellers, a Persian, a Turk, an Arab, and a Greek, who argue about how best to spend a single coin, which is the only piece of money they have between them. They all desire grapes, but they do not realise this because each speaks a different language. A traveller hears them quarrelling and buys them a bunch of grapes.