 Although the anecdotes from his life mainly revolve around the southern Italian and Sicilian lifestyle, his character traits are visible in the folk characters of many Mediterranean cultures.In fact, scholars suggest that the character Giufà developed from stories of Nasrudin, a Turkish folk character.It is believed that during Islamic rule of the island of Sicily, stories of this man (known in Arabic as Juha) were absorbed into the Sicilian oral tradition, transformed to exemplify cultural norms and eventually transmitted throughout southern Italy.