Geert Jan van Gelder

List of John Benjamins publications for which Geert Jan van Gelder plays a role.

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Gelder, Geert Jan van 2022 Poetic parodies of Islamic discourses by Abū Nuwās Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 183–206 | Chapter
Abū Nuwās (d. c. 813), one of the greatest and most versatile of Arabic poets, practised every major genre. His fame and notoriety rest especially on his large corpus of Bacchic verse and love poetry, most of which is homoerotic. All his poetry is secular: no mystical verse, hymns on God or… read more