Humor in Early Islam
Humor in Early Islam

Author: Franz Rosenthal

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9004215735

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Humor in Early Islam, first published in 1956, is a pioneering study by the versatile and prolific scholar Franz Rosenthal (1914–2003), who (having published an article on mediaeval Arabic blurbs), should have written this text himself. It contains an annotated translation of an Arabic text on a figure who became the subject of many jokes and anecdotes, the greedy and obtuse Ashʿab, a singer who lived in the eighth century but whose literary and fictional life long survived him. The translation is preceded by chapters on the textual sources and on the historical and legendary personalities of Ashʿab; the book ends with a short essay on laughter. Whether or not the jokes will make a modern reader laugh, the book is a valuable source for those seriously interested in a religion or a culture that all too often but unjustly is associated, by outsiders, with an aversion to laughter.

Humor in Early Islam
Humor in Early Islam

Author: Franz Rosenthal

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-27

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9004211489

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This series reprints the best of the titles in Islamic Studies that were published by Brill before 1970. Titles that have been out of print for a long time, but are still important for libraries and scholars will become easily available to a wider audience. The best of two centuries of scholarship, newly typeset and with new introductions by some of the foremost scholars in Islamic Studies make the Brill Classics in Islam an indispensable part of any Islamic studies collection.

Muslims and Humour
Muslims and Humour

Author: Schweizer, Bernard

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2022-05-26

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1529214688

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This thought-provoking collection offers a multi-disciplinary approach on the subject of humour, Muslims, and Islam. Beginning with theoretical perspectives and scriptural guidance on permissible and restricted humour, the volume presents a variety of case studies about Muslim comedic practices in various cultural, political, and religious contexts. This unprecedented scholarship sheds new light on common misconceptions about humour and laughter in Islam and deftly tackles sensitive themes from blasphemy to freedom of speech. Chapter 9 is available Open Access via OAPEN under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

The Humor of Islam...You'll Die Laughing
The Humor of Islam...You'll Die Laughing

Author: Az Zaqqum

Publisher: Booksurge Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781419699245

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This will be the funniest book you will ever read on the humor of Islam. Actually, it's the only book ever written on the humor of Islam. It's hot. Buy the book!

Arab Legacy to Humour Literature
Arab Legacy to Humour Literature

Author: Abdul Ali

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9788175330856

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This book contains the first authentic and comprensive analytical treatment of the lighter side of the Arabs which has been a striking feature of their cultural and social life in both pre-lslamic and lslamic times. The Arab jokes and amusing anecdotes incorporated in this work from various Arabic sources have the potential not only to entertain readers, but also to provide them with penetratitng insights into the main trends of life that prevailed in the medieval Arab World, thereby giving them a peep into the otherwise inaccessible hidden character of Arab-Muslim societies in those days-the period of their cultural ascendancy which, however, contrasted sharply with early classical islam.

Vintage Humour
Vintage Humour

Author: Alex Rowell

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1849049939

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Abu Nuwas, the pre-eminent bacchic bard of the classical Arabic canon, was loved and reviled in equal measure for his lyrical celebration of Abbasid Baghdad's dissolute nightlife, his cutting satires of religion and the clergy, and the extraordinary range and virtuosity of his literary talent. Vintage Humour contains approximately 120 translations, each replicating the monorhyme scheme of the originals, with commentary where appropriate, a brief history of the poet's life and times, and a glossary of the key themes, motifs, and running jokes of the poems themselves. Based on extensive research with both Arabic and English source materials, Vintage Humour is an illuminating collection, of interest to both general and informed readers with an interest in Islamic studies, Arabic literature, and the history of Iraq and the Middle East.

Humour in the Beginning
Humour in the Beginning

Author: Roald Dijkstra

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2022-10-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9027257469

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Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism. Its coherence is strengthened by four preceding theoretical essays, many cross-references and a conclusion. Thus, the volume allows for a methodologically sound comparison and explanation of historical views on humour in the world’s most important religions. At first sight, the foundational period of religions do not seem to offer much opportunities for humour. A closer look on primary sources, however, reveals the ways in which people formulated answers to existing ideas on humour and laughter, in moments of religious renewal. Main topics include the incongruous nature of the divine, the role of anthropomorphism, superior and didactic humour, moderate laughter, responses from dissenters and the gap between religious regulations and reality.

Laughter in Hell
Laughter in Hell

Author: Steve Lipman

Publisher: Jason Aronson

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781568211121

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Lipman examines the manifestations of humor as spiritual resistance in the midst of death, darkness, and destruction.

Finding Mecca in America
Finding Mecca in America

Author: Mucahit Bilici

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0226922871

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The events of 9/11 had a profound impact on American society, but they had an even more lasting effect on Muslims living in the United States. Once practically invisible, they suddenly found themselves overexposed. By describing how Islam in America began as a strange cultural object and is gradually sinking into familiarity, Finding Mecca in America illuminates the growing relationship between Islam and American culture as Muslims find a homeland in America. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book is an up-close account of how Islam takes its American shape. In this book, Mucahit Bilici traces American Muslims’ progress from outsiders to natives and from immigrants to citizens. Drawing on the philosophies of Simmel and Heidegger, Bilici develops a novel sociological approach and offers insights into the civil rights activities of Muslim Americans, their increasing efforts at interfaith dialogue, and the recent phenomenon of Muslim ethnic comedy. Theoretically sophisticated, Finding Mecca in America is both a portrait of American Islam and a groundbreaking study of what it means to feel at home.