Molla Nasraddin (magazine)

Molla Nasraddin

Molla Nasraddin #22 (c. 1910)
Editor-in-chief	Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1906–1931) Mammadali Sidgi Safarov (1910–1911) Aligulu Gamkusar (1913–1914)
Staff writers	Jalil Mammadguluzadeh Omar Faig Nemanzadeh Mirza Alakbar Sabir Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev Ali Nazmi Aligulu Gamkusar Mammed Said Ordubadi Mirza Ali Mojuz Artistic contributors: Oskar Schmerling Josef Rotter Azim Azimzade
Categories	Satire
Founder	Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Omar Faig Nemanzadeh and Mashadi Alasgar Bashirzadeh
Founded	1906
Final issue Number	1933 748
Based in	Tbilisi, Russian Empire (1906–1917) Tabriz, Qajar Iran (1921) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR (1922–1931)
Language	Azerbaijani

Molla Nasraddin (Azerbaijani: ملا نصرالدین, Molla Nəsrəddin; Russian: Молла Насреддин, old orthography: Молла Насреддинъ) was an eight-page Azerbaijani satirical periodical published in Tiflis (1906–17), Tabriz (in 1921) and Baku (1922–33). From the second issue of 1931, the magazine was called Allahsyz (Azerbaijani: Allahsız; Russian: Безбожник; meaning "Godless") in the Azerbaijani and occasionally Russian languages. The magazine was "read across the Muslim world from Morocco to East Asia".^[1] It was founded by Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (1869–1932) and Omar Faig Nemanzadeh (1872–1937), and named after Nasreddin, the legendary Sufi wise man-cum-fool of the Middle Ages.^[2] Columnists wrote articles that "boldly satirized politics, religion, colonialism, Westernization, and modernization, education (or lack thereof), and the oppression of women".^[1]