Told in the Coffee House

Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales

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Told in the Coffee House by Cyrus Adler, Allan Ramsay

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1898

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101

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Told in the Coffee House
Turkish Tales

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How The Hodja Saved Allah -- Better Is The Folly Of Woman Than The Wisdom Of Man -- The Hanoum And The Unjust Cadi -- What Happened To Hadji, A Merchant Of The Bezestan -- How The Junkman Travelled To Find Treasure In His Own Yard -- How Chapkin Halid Became Chief Detective -- How Cobbler Ahmet Became The Chief Astrologer -- The Wise Son Of Ali Pasha -- The Merciful Khan -- King Kara-Kush Of Bithynia -- The Prayer Rug And The Dishonest Steward -- The Goose, The Eye, The Daughter, And The Arm -- The Forty Wise Men -- How The Priest Knew That It Would Snow -- Who Was The Thirteenth Son? -- Paradise Sold By The Yard -- Jew Turned Turk -- The Metamorphosis -- The Calif Omar -- Kalaidji Avram Of Balata -- How Mehmet Ali Pasha Of Egypt Administered Justice -- How The Farmer Learned To Cure His Wife: A Turkish Æsop -- The Language Of Birds -- The Swallow's Advice -- We Know Not What The Dawn May Bring Forth -- Old Men Made Young -- The Bribe -- How The Devil Lost His Wager -- The Effects Of Raki --

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Fin de siècle Turkey was the realm of Christian, Jew, and Muslim and within the walls of the Turkish coffee house, over mugs of strong coffee and clouds from the Turkish hookahs, the men would entertain themselves by telling each other stories.

The stories gathered by Cyrus Alder and Allan Ramsay are a conglomeration that come from all three world views. Though the tales by today’s standards are highly racist and bigoted, they are quite reminiscent of the Arabian tales told by Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights with a fantastical magic all their own.

Craig Alan Loewen
http://literary-equine.livejournal.com/