The Dervish and the Talking Nightingale
In the towns and caravan roads of Ottoman-era Bosnia and Herzegovina, stories once traveled as faithfully as merchants and pilgrims. They were told in courtyards, sung beside fountains, and remembered in coffeehouses long after the lamps had burned low. Among these tales, preserved in the late nineteenth century by Kosta Hörmann in Narodne pjesme Muhamedovaca u Bosni i Hercegovini, is
