Yasmin Amin
List of John Benjamins publications for which Yasmin Amin plays a role.
Articles
2022 Is the application of modern humour theories on historical cases a joke? 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. 23–30 | Chapter
2022 A laughing God, between Sunni approval and Shi’ite rejection 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. 155–182 | Chapter
In the Sunni Ḥadīth (henceforth: Hadith) collections a number of distinctive narrations describe the Prophet laughing, while telling his community about various instances when God himself laughs. The reasons for God’s laughter vary, but mostly reassure the believers that there is nothing to fear… read more