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True, but Nasreddin was not from Persia but from Asia Minor during Seljuk rule.
by bgnn 2y ago
True, but Nasreddin was not from Persia but from Asia Minor during Seljuk rule.
- skissane 2y agoI think the person you were replying to was saying that the joke about Nasreddin was from Persia, not that Nasreddin was from Persia. And, they cite that joke to a Wikipedia article, which in turn cites it to a blog post, which quotes it from a book which claims to be translated from Persia. So the attribution of (at least that specific instance of) the joke to Persia is correct. Also, it is unclear if Nasreddin ever actually existed, or if he is purely legendary. Turkish folklore claims he lived in Asia Minor during the Seljuks, but Uzbek folklore claims he was an Uzbek who lived in Uzbekistan. Some Azerbaijani scholars have identified him with the 13th century Persian polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi.