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" Jokes and joke books - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Marzolph, Ulrich
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English
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1062364
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ALei2761
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Marzolph, Ulrich
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Jokes and joke books - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Marzolph, Ulrich
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,449 words)
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Arabic literature of the pre-Mongol period contains many thousands of jokes . From the fourth/tenth century onwards, jokes were compiled into joke books , a genre that remained popular in the post-Mongol and modern periods. A similar, although chronologically somewhat later, development took place in Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and other literatures of the Muslim world. 1. The genre The classical, premodern, and modern literatures of the Muslim world are a vast treasure-trove of jocular prose (Marzolph, Arabia ridens ; Marzolph, 101 Middle Eastern Tales ). In classical Arabic literature, jokes
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Islam.
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ALei2761.pdf
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