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1 online resource (xx, 387 pages) : illustrations |
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Religion and humor. The Qurʼān and humor / Georges Tamer. Verstehen Sie Spass? Ernsthafte Anmerkungen zur schariatrechtlichen Dimension des Scherzens / Birgit Krawietz. Qabḍ (Beklommenheit) und basṭ (Gelöstheit) als Grundeinstellungen islamischer Mystik / Bernd Radtke. The joke in rabbinic literature : home-born or Diaspora humor? / Tal-Ilan. Der Humor als Schritt ins Christentum : zu einer überraschenden These Sören Kierkegaards / Michael Bongardt -- Cross-cultural humor. Witz und Schwank in der Kontinuität mittelmeerischer Kultur / Gotthard Strohmaier. Humor aus der Antike in der mittelalterlichen arabischen Literatur / Oliver Overwien. The Byzantine sense of humor / Przemsław Marciniak. Conflicting tendencies between higher and lower strata of humor : some Genizah fragments / Joseph Sadan |
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(cont.) Humor in Medieval Arabic literature. Provokative Grenzbereiche im klassischen arabischen Witz / Ulrich Marzolph. Die Sonne auf dem Maultier : ʻUmar ibn Abī Rabīʻa als Humorist / Renate Jacobi. Die Produktion von hazl "Scherz" in der Dichtung aṣ-Ṣanawbarīs / Wolfhart Heinrichs. Al-Jāḥiẓ on jest and earnest / James Edward Montgomery. Ayyu ḥarajin ʻalā man anshaʼa mulaḥan? Al-Ḥarīrī's plea for the legitimacy of playful transgressions of social norms / Angelike Neuwirth. Worüber lacht Tausendundeine Nacht? / Claudia Ott. Spott im Ornat : Humor auf zweiter Stufe bei Ibn Arabschah (st. 1450) / Stefan Leder -- Humor in modern Arabic literature. Satire und schwarzer Humor im Werk von Zakariyyā Tāmir / Peter Dové. Satirical weapons, Egyptianized kings / Shereen Abou El Naga. "Why will Hassan Nasrallah win the Nobel Prize for education?" Zeitgenössische politische Witze im Libanon / Sara Binay. Komische Katharsis : Lachen und Weinen in Driss Chraïbis La civilisation, ma mère! / Roland Spiller. Grenzen des Lachens : slim karikiert das postkoloniale Algerien ... / Doris Ruhe. "The importance of being Earnest" : Anmerkungen zu einem Buch gewordenen Missverständnis zwischen Joachim Helfer und Rašīd aḍ-Ḍaʻīf / Andreas Pflitsch |
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This collected volume publishes the contributions of numerous scholars to the International Symposium Humor in Arabic Culture, by the editor in July 2007 at the Free University of Berlin. First of all, a critical view is taken of early Muslim religious writings - and against the background of relevant Jewish and Christian pronouncements - to determine more closely the Islamic discourse on the value and non-value of humor; here too the question is examined of the extent to which normative forces were thus released which were able to set boundaries for Arabic humor. Then the wide spectrum of the |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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14 contributions in German, 8 in English |
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Arabic literature -- History and criticism
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Humor in literature.
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Arabic wit and humor -- Religious aspects -- Islam
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- African.
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Arabic literature
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Humor in literature
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Kultur
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Arabisch
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Literatur
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Humor
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Humor Motiv
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Humor.
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Kultur.
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Arabic literature -- History and criticism.
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Humor in literature.
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Arabic wit and humor -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
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Arabien (Region)
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Arabisch.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Online-Publikation.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Tamer, Georges.
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| ISBN |
9783110211061 |
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3110211068 |
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