Humor in Early Islam, by Franz Rosenthal, with an introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder

Year 2013, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 94 - 97, 11.12.2013

Gert Borg

https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2013.41.73

Abstract

First paragraph: This book by Franz Rosenthal, a scholar in Arabic and Semitic studies, was first published in 1956 and did hardly lose any of its significance until the present day. Therefore it was a splendid initiative to have it re-edited, this time with an intelligent introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder

Humor in Early Islam, by Franz Rosenthal, with an introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder

Abstract

First paragraph:
This book by Franz Rosenthal, a scholar in Arabic and Semitic studies, was first published in 1956 and did hardly lose any of its significance until the present day. Therefore it was a splendid initiative to have it re-edited, this time with an intelligent introduction by Geert Jan van Gelder

Keywords

Humor, Early Islam, Franz Rosenthal