Editing Nasreddin (section)

==In the literature and folk tradition of Central Asia and the Caucasus ==

[[Uzbeks]] consider Nasreddin an Uzbek who was born and lived in [[Bukhara]],<ref name="fedai">{{Cite web |title=Mulla or Hodja Nasreddin as seen by Cypriot Turks and Greeks |url=https://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol16/mulla.pdf |last=Hixarid Fedai |website=folklore.ee}}</ref> and stories about him are called ''latifa'' or ''afandi''.
There are at least two collections of Uzbek stories related to Nasriddin Afandi:
* "Afandining qirq bir passhasi" – (Forty-one flies of Afandi) – Zohir A'lam, [[Tashkent]]
* "Afandining besh xotini" – (Five wives of Afandi)
[[File:Molla Nasreddin, 1906, No. 02, p. 01.jpg|thumb|''Molla Nasraddin'' cover (1906, #2)|306x306px]]
Nasreddin was the main character in a magazine, called simply ''[[Molla Nasraddin (magazine)|Molla Nasraddin]]'', published in [[Azerbaijan]] and "read across the Muslim world from Morocco to Iran". The eight-page [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] [[satire|satirical]] periodical was published in [[Tiflis]] (from 1906 to 1917), [[Tabriz]] (in 1921) and [[Baku]] (from 1922 to 1931) in the [[Azerbaijani language|Azeri]] and occasionally Russian languages. Founded by [[Jalil Mammadguluzadeh]], it depicted [[social inequality|inequality]], [[cultural assimilation]], and [[Police corruption|corruption]] and ridiculed the backward lifestyles and values of clergy and religious fanatics.<ref>[https://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/43_folder/43_articles/43_mollamag.html Molla Nasraddin – The Magazine: Laughter that Pricked the Conscience of a Nation] by Jala Garibova. ''Azerbaijan International''. Vol. 4:3 (Autumn 1996), pp. 22-23</ref> The magazine was frequently banned<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [https://www.baku.ru/enc-show.php?cmm_id=0&id=410&c=930 ''Molla Nasraddin''], an entry from the [[Great Soviet Encyclopaedia]] by A.Sharif. ''Baku.ru''</ref> but had a lasting influence on Azerbaijani and Iranian literature.<ref>{{in lang|fa}} [https://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/worldnews/story/2006/07/060721_mv-constitution-en-satire-poem.shtml Molla Nasraddin and Jalil Mammadguluzadeh] by [[Ebrahim Nabavi]]. BBC Persian. 6 July 2006</ref>