Sing to me of the man, O Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course…many cities of men he saw and learned their minds…while he fought only to save his life, to bring his shipmates home…
-The Odyssey
What Odysseus and KhairAllah held most in common was concern for their shipmates, getting them safely home, but only if you first buy into that old saw about camels being ships of the desert, and the drovers their crew.