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A philosopher, having made an appointment to dispute with Nasrudin, called and found him away from home. Infuriated, he picked up a piece of chalk and wrote ‘Stupid Oaf’ on Nasrudin’s...

Someone saw Nasrudin searching for something on the ground. ‘What have you lost, Mulla?’ he asked. ‘My key,’ said the Mulla. So they both went down on their knees and looked for...

Nasrudin gave his wife some meat to cook for guests. When the meal arrived, there was no meat. She had eaten it. ‘The cat ate it, all three pounds of it,’ she said. Nasrudin put the cat on the...

‘Laws as such do not make people better,’ said Nasrudin to the King; ‘they must practise certain things, in order to become attuned to inner truth. This form of truth resembles apparent...

Time and again Nasrudin passed from Persia to Greece on donkey-back. Each time he had two panniers of straw, and trudged back without them. Every time the guard searched him for contraband. They...

One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. ‘What is this?’ asked...

Nasrudin was throwing handfuls of crumbs around his house. ‘What are you doing?’ someone asked him. ‘Keeping the tigers away.’ ‘But there are no tigers in these parts.’ ‘That’s...

Nasrudin sometimes took people for trips in his boat. One day a fussy pedagogue hired him to ferry him across a very wide river. As soon as they were afoat the scholar asked whether it was going...

Walking one evening along a deserted road, Mulla Nasrudin saw a troop of horsemen coming towards him. His imagination started to work; he saw himself captured and sold as a slave, or impressed...

‘I am a hospitable man,’ said Nasrudin to a group of cronies at the teahouse. ‘Very well, then take us all home to supper,’ said the greediest. Nasrudin collected the whole crowd and...