Molla Nasreddin Polemics Caricatures Satires Farid Alakbarov by Farid Alakbarov, Slavs And Tatars, Aleksei Ilich Kalabin 9781838608842, 9781838608859, 1838608842, 1838608850 instant download after payment.

Published between 1906 and 1930, Molla Nasreddin was a satirical Azeri
periodical edited by Jalil Mammadguluzadeh and named after the legendary
Sufi wise man-cum-fool of the Middle Ages (who reputedly lived in the
thirteenth century in the Ottoman Empire). With an acerbic sense of
humour and realist illustrations, Molla Nasreddin attacked the hypocrisy
of the Muslim clergy, the colonial policies of European nations, and
later the United States, towards the rest of the world and the
corruption of local elites, while at the same time arguing for
Westernisation, educational reform and equal rights for women. The
publication was an instant success-selling half of its initial print run
of 1,000 in the first day-and within months would sell 5000 copies per
issue, which was record-breaking for the time. It became one of the most
influential publications of its kind and was read across the Muslim
world. Slavs and Tatars, a leading art collective focusing on Eurasia,
has brought together this collection of sketches, caricatures and
satirical writings from Molla Nasreddin, in the process revealing an
unusual manifestation of nationalism in the Caucasus and its surrounding
regions.