Introduction / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Amphigory and other nonsense in classical Arabic literature / Geert Jan van Gelder
Persian humor in the international context / Ulrich marzolph
Have you heard the one about the man from Qazvin? regionalist humor in the works of Ubayd-i Zākānī / Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Bawdy anecdotes in religious settings: examples from medieval Persian literature / Olga M. Davidson
Playful figures of script in Persian and Chinese / Paul Sprachman
Despots of the world unite! satire in the iranian constitutional press: the Majalla-yi istibdād, 1907-1908 / Ali Gheissari
Humor for in-betweeners: Sādiq Hidāyat's myth of creation as a cross-cultural phenomenon / Marta Simidchieva
Ottoman Karagöz and Greek shadow theater: communicational shifts and variants in a multi-ethnic and ethnic context / Anna Stavrakopoulou.
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Ruse and wit : the humorous in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative. ISBN 9780674066700. Published by Ilex Foundation in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
