Muslims and humour essays on comedy, joking, and mirth in contemporary Islamic contexts
In this thought-provoking collection, Muslim and non-Muslim academics take a multi-disciplinary approach to humour in Islam. They draw on examples of comedy practices and styles to scope sociological, cultural, theological and political themes, consider humour's role in fundamentalism, and corr...
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Theoretical Perspectives on Islam and Humour
- Ridicule in the Qur’an: The Missing Link in Islamic Humour Studies
- Laughter in the Discursive Tradition? Emotions of Muḥammad as the Topic of a Pious Arabic–English Reader
- Humour in Islamic Literature and Muslim Practices: Virtue or Vice?
- Muslim Humour Practices in Islamicate Societies: Textual Media
- Using/Abusing the Qur’an in Jocular Literature: Blasphemy, Qur’anophilia, or Familiarity?
- A ‘Stupid Lur’ Mocks Allah and Mullah: Sociocultural Implications of the Luri Jokes Cycle
- Muslim Humour Practices in Islamicate Societies: Visual Media and Performance
- Al-Bernameg: How Bassem Youssef Ridiculed Religious Fundamentalists and Survived the ‘Defamation of Religion’ Charge
- Arab Cartoonists and Religion: The Interdependence of Transgression and Taboo
- Hizbullah’s Humour: Political Satire, Comedy, and Revolutionary Theatre
- ‘Putting the Fun Back into Fundamentalism’: Toying with Islam and Extremism in Comedy
- Muslim Comedy in North America
- Queering Islam in Performance: Gender and Sexuality in American Muslim Women’s Stand-up Comedy
- Comedy as Social Commentary in Little Mosque on the Prairie: Decoding Humour in the First ‘Muslim Sitcom’
- Conclusion
- Bibliography on Islam and Humour
- Index
