Many sources give the birthplace of Nasreddin as Hortu Village in Sivrihisar, Eskişehir Province, present-day Turkey, in the 13th century, after which he settled in Akşehir, and later in Konya under the Seljuq rule, where he died in 1275 / 6 or 1285 / 6 CE.

The tower was designed and supervised free of cost by Nasreddin Murat-Khan, an architect / engineer hailing from Daghestan.

Nasreddin often appears as a whimsical character of a large Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Judeo-Spanish, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Turkish and Urdu folk tradition of vignettes, not entirely different from zen koans.

Traditional examples for Turkish folk literature include the stories of Karagöz and Hacivat, Keloğlan, İncili Çavuş and Nasreddin Hoca, as well as the works of folk poets such as Yunus Emre and Aşık Veysel.

Nasreddin also reflects another significant change that had occurred between the days when the Turkish people were nomadic and the days when they had largely become settled in Anatolia ; namely, Nasreddin is a Muslim imam.

The Sufi influence, for instance, can be seen clearly not only in the tales concerning Nasreddin but also in the works of Yunus Emre, a towering figure in Turkish literature and a poet who lived at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century, probably in the Karamanid state in south-central Anatolia.

Perhaps the most popular figure in the tradition is the aforementioned Nasreddin ( known as Nasreddin Hoca, or " teacher Nasreddin ", in Turkish ), who is the central character of thousands of jokes.

His books in English include two collections of his poems (" Shadows of Love ", published in Canada, and " A Last Lullaby ", published in the United States ), Contemporary Turkish Literature, Modern Turkish Drama, Living Poets of Turkey, three books of the 13th century Anatolian mystic folk poet Yunus Emre, Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes ( with Metin And ), Suleiman the Magnificent-Poet, Turkish Legends and Folk poems, Tales of Nasreddin Hodja, and others.

tr: Nasreddin Hoca

Nasreddin Hoca

The International Nasreddin Hodja fest is celebrated between 5 – 10 July in Aksehir, Turkey every year.

The alleged tomb of Nasreddin is in Akşehir and the " International Nasreddin Hodja Festival " is held annually in Akşehir between 5 – 10 July.

Nasreddin Hodja in Ankara

Nasreddin Hodja in Ankara

In Russia Nasreddin is known mostly because of the novel " Tale of Hodja Nasreddin " written by Leonid Solovyov ( English translations: " The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara ," 1956, and " The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace ," 2009 ).

* Gold donkey of Nasreddin Hodja.

nl: Nasreddin Hodja

no: Nasreddin Hodja

The Crick Crack Club in London organize a yearly " Grand Lying Contest " with the winner being awarded the coveted " Hodja Cup " ( named for the Mulla Nasreddin: " The truth is something I have never spoken .").

In Leonid Solovyov's well-known Russian novel Tale of Hodja Nasreddin ( translated to

Hugh Lupton won the coveted " Hodja Cup " ( named for the Mulla Nasreddin: " The truth is something I have never spoken.

* Nasrudin or Nasreddin, legendary wise man in Islamic tradition

1996 – 1997 was declared International Nasreddin Year by UNESCO.

: Once Nasreddin was invited to deliver a sermon.

: One day when Nasreddin was having his regular daily coffee at his usual seat in his usual outdoor café, a schoolboy came along and knocked off his turban.

Again, Nasreddin just picked it up, put it back on and resumed whatever conversation he was having.

: Nasreddin was walking in the bazaar with a large group of followers.

Nasreddin was the main character in a magazine, called simply Molla Nasraddin, published in Azerbaijan and " read across the Muslim world from Morocco to Iran ".

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

For Uzbek people, Nasreddin is one of their own, and was born and lived in Bukhara.

In 1943, the Soviet film Nasreddin in Bukhara was directed by Yakov Protazanov based on Solovyov's book, followed in 1947 by a film called The Adventures of Nasreddin, directed by Nabi Ganiyev and also set in the Uzbekistan SSR.

Siwi viewers complained to Al-Jazeera after Ibrahim Nasreddin, an Egyptian expert on African affairs, claimed on Al Jazeera's File ( Al Milaff ) program that Israel was forming ties with Siwa.

It was designed by Daghestani-born architect and engineer Nasreddin Murat-Khan, who also designed Lahore's Minar-e-Pakistan, and constructed by Mian Abdul Khaliq and Company in 1959.

English as The Beggar in the Harem: Impudent Adventures in Old Bukhara ), a central plot element is the protagonist's efforts to rescue his beloved from the Harem of the Emir of Bukhara – an element not present in the original tales of the Middle Eastern folk hero Nasreddin, on which the novel was loosely based.

His real name is Sheyh Nasreddin Ebul ’ Ha-kayik, Mahmud Bin Ahmed El-Hoyi and he was born in Hoy, Iran in December 1169.

:" I have become a Sufi Sheikh ," replied Nasreddin.

Another example is the rather mysterious figure of Nasreddin, a trickster who often plays jokes, of a sort, on his neighbors.

As generations have gone by, new stories have been added to the Nasreddin corpus, others have been modified, and he and his tales have spread to many regions.

Although most of them depict Nasreddin in an early small-village setting, the tales, like Aesop's fables, deal with concepts that have a certain timelessness.

Today, Nasreddin stories are told in a wide variety of regions, especially across the Muslim world and have been translated into many languages.

Some regions independently developed a character similar to Nasreddin, and the stories have become part of a larger whole.

The Nasreddin stories are known throughout the Middle East and have touched cultures around the world.

"—" Yes, I do ," answered Nasreddin .—" Can I have some?

"—" No, you can't have any ," answered Nasreddin.