al-Jidd wa-l-hazl - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" al-Jidd wa-l-hazl - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
van Gelder, Geert Jan

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1060198
Doc. NO	:	ALei595
Main Entry	:	van Gelder, Geert Jan
Title & Author	:	al-Jidd wa-l-hazl - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ van Gelder, Geert Jan
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(852 words)
Abstract	:	Al-jidd wa-l-hazl , “seriousness and jesting,” is an antonymous pair often used to refer to a judicious combination or mixture of these two modes in Arabic literature (especially adab ) and sometimes in people’s character and behaviour. Instead of hazl one also finds near-synonyms such as muzāḥ (“joking”), laʿib (“play”), or bāṭil (“nonsense”). In several of his works, notably al-Ḥayawān (“Living beings”) and al-Tarbīʿ wa-l-tadwīr (“Squaring and circling”), the famed belletrist al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/868) mentions the need for alternating jidd and
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei595.pdf