The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah

The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

Idries Shah
198 pages
ISF Publishing
Feb 2019
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AMERICAN ENGLISH EDITIONPart of Idries Shah's Nasrudin series, this book contains some of the thousands of stories that have been told around this popular folk character since his purported birth in the 13th century.The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin is a collection of teaching stories, anecdotes and jokes drawn from Middle Eastern folklore and the Sufi mystical tradition, which feature the Eastern crackpot and enlightened fool, Mulla Nasrudin.Idries Shah assembled this compendium of Nasrudin's trials and tribulations from ancient manuscripts and oral literature - from sources in North Africa and Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia. Many were known to the great Sufi masters, Rumi, Jami, and Attar the Chemist.In this delightful volume, Shah not only gives the Mulla a proper vehicle for our times, he proves that the centuries-old stories and quips of Nasrudin are still some of the funniest jokes in the world.
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Pages 198
Publisher ISF Publishing
Published 2019
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