When Satire Conquered Iran

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Islamic empire -  published from 1906 to 1930 that was read by Muslims from Morocco to India

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We won't let you move forward

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European politics towards the East

THE MAGAZINE THAT ALMOST CHANGED THE WORLD

“Listen, people who get a contemporary education want us to forget our old, pagan beliefs,” the caption reads. “Do not allow this to happen under any circumstances!”

 Caption: Four wives is enough

Caption: "There was no one except Allah. And then a stupid Azeri, an idiotic Armenian, and except for them, there was one devil. And one day, the devil”¦" Armenian-Azeri relations have been dismal for centuries, as is visible today in the frozen conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in the Southern Caucasus officially recognized as belonging to Azerbaijan, but under de-facto independence following the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the late 1980s. The man with hair (R) is Armenian and the bald man (L) is Azeri.

Caption: "Baku train station." According to an old Azeri superstition, when one is setting out on a journey, it is considered good luck to pour water behind oneself. An Azeri man here pours water onto the platforms to the shock and dismay of European women, a clear parody of the clash of cultures (European and Asian) and classes in the Caucasus at the turn of the century.

This cartoon with Caucasians fighting with each-other in the background depicts Mikhail Menshikov (1859-1918) – a famous Russian intellectual, publisher and public figure, one of the ideologists of Russian nationalism as a Russian peasant lady with Novoye Vremya – New Age newspaper as her kerchief crying: “Disaster!.. Caucasus is getting away!..”

 Inscriptions on the papers they hold say Üsuli-cedide khilaf sherietdir – What is against the New Methods is Islamic Sharia law and Tekfir – apostasy, declaration of him as unbeliever.

Molla Naserddin Magazine

MOLLA NASREDDIN ["Mulla Nasrudin". Azerbaijani Satirical Magazine] No. 10

Bukhara is holy

But the time is enlightenment

Emir of Bukhara - Doctor, what is his illness?

Doctor - This unlucky is almost dead, without a new remedy he can not live longer

Emir - remedy?

Doctor - Cleaning with this medicine in bottle is needed

Emir - remedy(?) and scholar(?), my advises are better

Comic Sage of the Ages

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