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Hajji Baba

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Hajji Baba
shrewd rascal travels around Persia. [Fr. Lit.: Hajji Baba of Ispahan in Magill I, 343]

Hajji Baba
clever rogue travels around Persia taking glamorous jobs for illicit gain. [Fr. Lit.: Hajji Baba of Ispahan in Magill I, 343]


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Gail Stevenson, East Kilbride A Hajji Baba was written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington for the film The Adventures Of Hajji Baba (1954).
There is a good parallel in James Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan, where a barber's shop story orally told in a Persian market-place revolves round whether the barber has bought the wood carried by a donkey or whether he has bought the wooden saddle as well.
She is a member of the San Francisco Bay Area Rug Society, the Hajji Baba Rug Society, New York, and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.
 
 
 
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