Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911

by Janet Afary and Kamran Afary

In the early twentieth century, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure Nasreddin in their periodical Mollā Nasreddin. They used folklore, visual art and satire to disseminate a consciously radical and social democratic discourse on religion, gender, sexuality and power in Transcaucasia and Iran. The periodical reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world, impacting the thinking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474499503
• ISBN13: 9781474499507
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.8"