He was a king in one of the ancient world's most storied cities --- wealthy, powerful, surrounded by everything the world said should be enough. And yet Ibrahim ibn Adham felt a hunger that none of it could touch. In this episode, Harmonia follows Ibrahim from the palace of Balkh to the orchards of Syria, tracing the journey of a man who put down his crown not in defeat but in clarity --- and who spent the rest of his life working with his hands, wandering with purpose, and feeding the only hunger that ever really mattered. His story is twelve centuries old. The hunger he followed is as alive today as it ever was.

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