Humor in Early Islam
Humor in Early Islam | Rare and modern books | Rosenthal Franz
Rare and modern books
Rosenthal Franz
E. J. Brill Leiden,
1956
Humor in Early Islam
Humor in Early Islam | Rare and modern books | Rosenthal Franz
Rare and modern books
Rosenthal Franz
E. J. Brill Leiden,
1956
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1956
- Place of printing
- Leiden Holland
- Author
- Rosenthal Franz
- Publishers
- E. J. Brill Leiden
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Keyword
- Islam
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- False
- State of preservation
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- True
Description
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.
