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Gr 1-3 A retelling from Sufi texts about a boy seeking knowledge who discovers that sometimes, giving is receiving. When the child asks a Grand Master for help, the Master requests a carpet in exchange for enlightenment, and thus begins a roundabout journey to fulfill each person's need that ends, as the best voyages do, in wisdom. From the Master to the spinner of wool to the keeper of goats to the carpenter to a grief-stricken girl, this cumulative story sends the narrative spinning out and, the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This cumulative teaching-tale from the Sufi tradition describes the tribulations and final triumph of a young boy who desperately wants knowledge but does not know how to obtain it. He begins, logically enough, by consulting a Grand Master who, in need of a small carpet, responds to his request by sending him on a quest for such an object. One after another his co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More