Humor in Early Islam

Descripción

8vo, original cloth pp.154. 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 Ashab, 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 Ashab; 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.

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Detalles bibliográficos

Título

Humor in Early Islam

Editor

E. J. Brill Leiden, Leiden Holland

Fecha de publicación

1956

Encuadernación

Cloth

Edición

First Edition.

Estado

Very Good

Catálogos de vendedores

• Islam