ABSTRACT/INTRODUCTION
The French film Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (Mister Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran) tells the story of a Muslim shopkeeper befriends a lonely Jewish boy named Momo (or Moshe) in Paris during the 1960s, and adopts him after his father commits suicide. They make a trip to M. Ibrahim’s homeland of Turkey, and the boy learns all about his adoptive father’s religion and cultural, which is the mystical or Sufi version of Islam. Both Momo and Ibrahim are members of minority groups that faced great discrimination in France at the time, and in fact Momo’ ...
