TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rozenthal,Franz
TI  - Humor in early Islam
T2  - Brill classics in Islam
SN  - 9789004211483
AV  - PN6154.R893.H866 2011 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ashab,
KW  - Arabic wit and humor
KW  - Arabic literature
KW  - Translations into English
N1  - 1 (pages 139.-141) and index; 2
N2  - This is a pioneering study by the versatile scholar Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003). It contains an annotated translation of an Arabic text on a figure who became the subject of many jokes and anecdotes, the greedy and obtuse Ash'ab, a singer who lived in the 8th century but whose literary and fictional life long survived him
ER  -