One day, Tamerlane turned to one of his guests and asked: “Who is your mentor?” “You, O Summit of the Globe!” replied the man. “If I am your mentor, then who is your prophet?” Before the guest had time to answer, Nasrudin broke in: “If you are truly his mentor, he can only have one prophet, none other than the ogre Genghis Khan himself!”

From Idries Shah’s The World of Nasrudin, London: The Octagon Press, 2003, p. 267.