This is the concluding part in my short series on humor. Having talked about what kind of humor has existed, I wanted to close it out by talking about one perspective on guiding principles in terms of our use of and reaction to humor.
I feel that I have adequately backed up my claims that humor […]
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Humor - A Normative Perspective
Published June 19th, 2007 in Humor, Islam, Islamic Law and Muslims and the Arts. 12 CommentsA Tradition of Humor
Published May 28th, 2007 in History, Humor, Islam, Muslims and the Arts and Quotes. 7 CommentsNote: This is the third part of an ongoing series on humor in classical Islamic texts. Here are links to part 1 and part 2. For those new to my blog or to this series, it arose out of discussion about specifically some of the racy humor in the TV show Little Mosque on the […]
The questions not asked
Published April 5th, 2007 in Hadith, History, Inspirational, Islam, Quotes and Talk Notes. 7 CommentsA couple of weeks ago I was blessed with the opportunity to be a speaker along sheikh Talal, one of the teachers that has had a great influence on me al-hamdulillah. The session was titled “Know Your Prophet” and was at the Halton Islamic Association (now on the blogroll :) ). I spoke on the […]
A couple of short answers
Published April 5th, 2007 in Blogging about the blog, Hadith, Inspirational, Islam, Life the Universe and Everything, Quotes and Tazkiyah. 3 CommentsThings have been hectic, hence the last two week hiatus. I am still working on that loooong article on humor in classic texts, but in the meantime the buffer has filled up with things I’ve been meaning to post. So a few entries to follow. The long post will most likely come next week inshaa […]
Five only answers
Published March 14th, 2007 in Blogging about the blog, Inspirational, Islam, Quotes and Reminiscing. 4 CommentsApologies for staying away for so long. I’ve been trying to write my 3rd episode in the discussion on humor, and it’s taking a long time. The primary reason for that is that when I decided to do just a little bit of research I found many more sources, and so many more examples, than […]
Classic Humor — Step Two
Published February 26th, 2007 in History, Humor, Islam, Muslims and the Arts, Quotes and Reminiscing. 21 CommentsWhen I referred to humor in classic texts in my first review of LM (seems so long ago now) I was thinking specifically of humor literature and humor in literature written by credible (in terms of scholarship and/or piety) authors in pre-modern times. When I started to think more carefully about what a piece on […]
Classic Humor - A Start (Finally)
Published February 25th, 2007 in Hadith, History, Humor, Islam, Muslims and the Arts and Quotes. 5 CommentsJazaakumullahu khayran to everyone that expressed interest in this subject and jazaakumullahu khayran for waiting (assuming you did :) ).
One disclaimer to begin with: this is a blog entry not a scholarly research paper :) . I will quote a given hadeeth if it was quoted in a credible source without myself attempting to check […]
I came across a pearl today as I was reading al-I’tisam by Imam al-Shatibi. I have reproduced it in Arabic below and done my best to translate it after. Inshaa Allah I will be referring back to it in the future when I get to write my follow-ups to the Little Mosque discussions. For […]
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