Ribald Classic: How The Sultan Made Peace In His Harem
June, 1967
Need I Begin my story by explaining to you who Achmet Hodja was? His fame, whether as wise man or as simpleton, has spread throughout the lands inhabited by the faithful, all the way from Bokhara to Fes, from Sarajevo to Timbuktu. Recently, I have been told that some of the less ignorant among the infidels have already published learned dissertations on his divinely inspired blend of sense and folly, in the distant and benighted universities of Uppsala, Chicago and Johannesburg. Let it therefore...
