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HALLO EVERYBODY !

During the period of my childhood and youth, (1950-1970),  while I was living in Istanbul, I had often heard people telling some quite amusing anegdotes on the Mullah Nasredding Hodja who had lived in Anatolia, Turkey.  I couldn't, of course, then, get the vibrations of their deep wisdom.  I had the chance to rediscover them by reading George I. Gurdjieff's "Opera Magna", "All and Everything".  He often talks about the Mullah as a Master of Wisdom, especially in "Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson".  

Not everyone knows that these anegdotes are still very popular in Asia and Europe of the ex Ottoman Empire (1453-1924)***.  If such a Character had really existed it is still a dilemma: in Konya, Turkey, there's even a grave with his name on it.  In any case, his events have been passed down for hundreds years todate orally and have also been published in several languages.  Reading these brief "tales", we can enjoy a subtle humor full of wisdom and common sense  coming from the Turks protesting against the arrogance of the powerful of their time. As these stories come to my mind,  I will try, in my turn, to write them down for those who wish to read them. 

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