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Humor in der arabischen Kultur / Humor in Arabic Culture.
Title:
Humor in der arabischen Kultur / Humor in Arabic Culture.
Author:
Tamer, Georges.
ISBN:
9783110211061
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (407 pages)
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Qur'ān and humor -- Verstehen Sie Spaß? -- Qabd (Beklommenheit) und bast (Gelöstheit) als Grundeinstellungen islamischer Mystik -- The joke in rabbinic literature -- Der Humor als Schritt ins Christentum -- Witz und Schwank in der Kontinuität mittelmeerischer Kultur -- Humor aus der Antike in der mittelalterlichen arabischen Literatur -- The Byzantine sense of humor -- Conflicting tendencies between higher and lower strata of humor -- Provokative Grenzbereiche im klassischen arabischen Witz -- Die Sonne auf dem Maultier -- Die Produktion von hazl „Scherz" in der Dichtung as-Sanawbarīs -- Al-Jāhiz on jest and earnest -- Ayyu harajin 'alā man ansha'a mulahan? -- Worüber lacht Tausendundeine Nacht? -- Spott im Ornat -- Satire und schwarzer Humor im Werk von Zakariyyā Tāmir -- Satirical weapons, Egyptianized kings -- „Why will Hassan Nasrallah win the Nobel Prize for education?" -- Komische Katharsis -- Grenzen des Lachens -- „The Importance of Being Earnest" -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
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 humorous in classical Arabic literature is reviewed and the common elements connecting the multifarious forms of its expression are revealed as a traditional Arabic understanding of humor. Finally, the papers discuss the way Arabic humor has changed with the onset of the modern age and globalization and examine the role of humor as a vehicle of social and political criticism in Arabic societies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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