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Humor in der arabischen Kultur / Humor in Arabic Culture

  • Edited by: Georges Tamer
Languages: German, English
Published/Copyright: 2009
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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 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.

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Georges Tamer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.

Reviews

"Der Sammelband bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in verschiedene Aspekte des Humors in der arabischen Welt. Er weist durch die Vielfalt seiner Beiträge sowohl auf Gemeinsamkeiten als auch auf Unterschiede zu anderen Kulturen hin. Im Hinblick auf die eingangs gestellten Fragen erscheinen Teil drei und vier als besonders aussagekräftig. Hier geben die von den Verfassern ausgewählten Beispiele für arabischen Witz dem Leser die Möglichkeit zu prüfen, ob die dargestellten Situationen für ihn selbst humorvoll sind oder nicht."
Tonia Schüller in: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2010/07/16816.html


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Georges Tamer
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Religion and Humor

Georges Tamer
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Ernsthafte Anmerkungen zur schariatrechtlichen Dimension des Scherzens
Birgit Krawietz
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Bernd Radtke
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Home-born or Diaspora humor?
Tal Ilan
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Zu einer überraschenden These Sören Kierkegaards
Michael Bongardt
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Cross-Cultural Humor

Gotthard Strohmaier
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Oliver Overwien
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Przemysław Marciniak
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Some Genizah fragments
Joseph Sadan
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Humor in Medieval Arabic Literature

Ulrich Marzolph
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'Umar ibn Abī Rabī'a als Humorist
Renate Jacobi
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Wolfhart Heinrichs
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James Edward Montgomery
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Al-Harīrī’s plea for the legitimacy of playful transgressions of social norms
Angelika Neuwirth
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Claudia Ott
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Humor auf zweiter Stufe bei Ibn Arabschah (st. 1450)
Stefan Leder
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Humor in Modern Arabic Literature

Peter Dové
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Shereen Abou Naga
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Zeitgenössische politische Witze im Libanon
Sara Binay
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Lachen und Weinen in Driss Chraïbis. La civilisation, ma mère!…
Roland Spiller
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Slim karikiert das postkoloniale Algerien
Doris Ruhe
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Anmerkungen zu einem Buch gewordenen Missverständnis zwischen Joachim Helfer und Rašīd ad-Da'īf
Andreas Pflitsch
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eBook published on:
March 26, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9783110211061
Hardcover published on:
February 18, 2009
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110198256
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Front matter:
20
Main content:
387
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