Farooq Hassan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Farooq Hassan plays a role.

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Hassan, Farooq 2022 Humour and its ethics: Reflections from the early Islamic era 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. 146–154 | Chapter
Today Islam appears to many to be a stiffly austere religion that denigrates humour, but in its earliest phase of development it endorsed humour and set guidelines in accordance with the teachings of the Qur’an and the Sunnah. Islam encourages humour of the positive kind and discourages the… read more