Mulla Stories

Mulla Stories indicate the intelligence of Mulla Nasruddin. The name that every Afghan remembers hearing about in childhood. Here is few of the thousands of humurous and thoughtful stories about Him. His identity is being claimed by three countries. Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey. The Nasruddin stories, known throughout the Middle East, constitute one of the strangest acheivements in the history of metaphysics. Superficially, most of the Nasruddin stories may be used as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and caravanserais, in the homes and on the radio waves, of Asia. But it is inherent in the Nasruddin story that it may be understood at any of many depths. There is the joke, the moral - and the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way to realization.

• A Question of Time

• Donkey of Hodja

• Fired by Fear

• Hodja and The Scholar

• Hodja Goes to Tailor

• Hodja’s Holy House

• Hodja in The Dust

• Hodja is Relieved

• Hodja Postpones Paying

• Hodja Refuses to Write

• Hodja's Rich Dream

• Hodja Suggests Remedy

• Hodja The King

• Milk for Mullah

• Sour Reply

• Speedy Ox

• Super Salesman

• Sweet Quarrels

• The Incomplete Coffin

• The Mind-Reader

• The Mulla in Muddle

• The Mulla Pleads Poverty

• The Relatives of Donkey

• The Scholarly Coachman