Nasreddin and Juha Middle Eastern World Tales Fairy Tales Tales Literature
Nasreddin and Juha Middle Eastern World Tales Fairy Tales Tales Literature
Nasreddin and Juha
The wise fool Nasreddin is the central character in a cycle of comic tales and jokes that are told all over the Middle East. He is known as Nasreddin Hodja or Mullah Nasreddin in much of the Turkic and Iranian speaking world, and as Juha in the Arabic speaking world.
In India, similar stories are told of the wise fools Birbal, and Tenali Raman.
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- Collection of Mullah Nasruddin jokes from Afghanistan.
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- Comprehensive site on the wise fool, including biography, stories and pictures, by Erol Beymen.
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- Stories of the hodja, including Alice Geer Kelsey's book "Once the Hodja", and Alpay Kabacali's illustrated stories.
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- Article in Azerbaijan International; includes stories.
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- Article by Harid Fedai, published in the e-zine Folklore (PDF format).
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- Stories of the wise fool Nasredin, by Ioan Tenner.
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- Illustrated anecdotes of the wise fool, collected by Turgut Durduran and Amy Alexieff.
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- A few of the thousands of humurous and thoughtful stories about Mullah Nasruddin.
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- Introduction and stories of Nasreddin Hodja, who has an answer to every question and is up to every trick.
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- Introduction, stories, pictures and cartoons, by Erol Abit.
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