Humor in Early Islam

by Rosenthal, Franz; Van Gelder, Geert Jan

• ISBN13: 9789004211483
• ISBN10: 9004211489
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Semitic Studies at Yale University and a scholar of Arabic literature and Islam. Professor Rosenthal was a prolific scholar whose publications ranged from this monograph on Humor in Early Islam to a three-volume annotated translation of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun to a Grammar of Biblical Aramaic.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
List of plates	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Materials for the study of Muslim humor	p. 1
The historical personality of Ash'ab	p. 17
The Ash'ab legend	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 34
Translation of texts	p. 36
Appendix: On laughter	p. 132
Bibliography	p. 139
Index of selected rare or explained Arabic words	p. 142
Index of proper names	p. 147
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