I'm not particularly fond of the fabulist genre because, in my limited experience, I think there is a lack of specific character descriptions as well as a tendency towards religiosity. That said, I enjoyed "Simple Prayers." It still clung to the Christian religion, but it at least created a smal...
The pattern of Nouri’s days, therefore, became fixed: rising at dawn to bow his head and fall prostrate for the first call to prayer, eating the morning meal, carrying a bowl of yogurt to the Sufi master’s cell and feeding him, practicing zikr, bowing his head and falling prostrate for the second...