Humor in early Islam / Franz Rosenthal ; with an introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder.

• Author: Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-2003.
• TeilnehmendeR: Gelder, G. J. H. van.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Brill Classics in Islam 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)
• Notes: "Translation of texts":p. [36]-131.

Humor in Early Islam , first published in 1956, is a pioneering study by the versatile and prolific scholar Franz Rosenthal (1914–2003), who (having published an article on mediaeval Arabic blurbs), should have written this text himself. It contains an annotated translation of an Arabic text on a fi...