Humor in der arabischen Kultur / Humor in Arabic Culture

✍ Scribed by Georges Tamer (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: German
• Leaves: 396
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of 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