Nasr Eddin Efendi climbs into the pulpit and asks his congregation whether they know what he is going to say; when they say no, he declines to tell them. These short anecdotes of the Turkish wise fool, his donkey, his neighbours and his summons before the Sultan were translated by George Borrow, the author of Lavengro.
A small collection of jokes that have travelled across the Muslim world for centuries. Download the free EPUB.