2 Masters of humour

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments VII
3. Contents IX
4. Note on transliteration XIII
5. Bibliographic reference for the novels XV
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 A laughable tradition 8
8. 2 Masters of humour 45
9. 3 Reversed epics. Nuʿmān, the village antihero 68
10. 4 Ibn Shalabī, a (pre-)modern trickster 98
11. 5 Laughing together at the hash den 129
12. 6 Laughing together at migration 157
13. 7 A comparative look 181
14. Conclusions 198
15. Bibliography 205
16. Websites and videos 227
17. Index 229