Nasreddin ( / ALA-LC: Naṣraddīn Juḥā, Turkish: Nasreddin Hoca,,, Nasreddīn Hodja Bosnian: Nasrudin Hodža ) was a Seljuq satirical Sufi figure, sometimes believed to have lived during the Middle Ages ( around 13th century ) and considered a populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

* Nasreddin, Medieval Middle Eastern literature has a character similar to Eulenspiegel

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.

Similar to the Nasreddin jokes, and arising from a similar religious milieu, are the Bektashi jokes, in which the members of the Bektashi religious order — represented through a character simply named Bektaşi — are depicted as having an unusual and unorthodox wisdom, one that often challenges the values of Islam and of society.

Shanghai Animation Film Studio produced a 13-episode Nasreddin related animation called ' The Story of Afanti '/ 阿凡提 ( 电影 ) in 1979, which became one of the most influential animations in China's history.

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.

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

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.

* Nasreddin Lebatelier, pseudonym of Jean Michot, Belgian Muslim writer

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

: Some children saw Nasreddin coming from the vineyard with two basketfuls of grapes loaded on his donkey.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

And it was his main present!!

The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.

The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.