Fars News/Radio Javan, "TV Episodes with Molla-Nasreddin" - Radio Javan - Atlanta, GA, USASaturday, October 4, 2008
A new TV series, inspired by the stories of Molla-Nasreddin, is to be produced in Iran.
The series, to be directed by Dariush Farhang and produced by Sima Film, will have thirteen 50-minute episodes.
Nasreddin is a a legendary satirical sufi figure. As a populist philosopher, he is known for illogical yet logical, rational yet irrational, bizarre yet normal, foolish yet sharp, and simple yet profound actions.
He is known in the Near-and the Middle-East and also in Central Asia by different names. He is claimed to be a real person having lived seven centuries ago in Turkey.
1996-1997 was declared International Nasreddin Year by UNESCO.
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Let me first of all apologize, before declaring my question! But it is from my total absence of academic knoweledge on this that I am compelled to ask you, amazed; Mullah Nasridín is considered a Sufi? Which are the refferences to this?
Because, I have read (and it might sound odd) mentions of this character in places from China to Turkey, passing through Iran. So, he sounds more a archetypical Oriental character, more than a real person, and, above all, he is not considered by most people I know (people with Persian literature proeficience) to consider him a Sufi!
Salam Sam,
answering in the spirit of the Mullah, perhaps he is a Sufi for those who consider him such :D
As for the references...this is a realm where another kind [from the usual academic] of references applies.
But his way of teaching is that of the Humorous Path, a well respected path in Sufism.
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