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alusur-14162	Lawrence, Jonny	Serious Laughter: Beyond the Jest-Earnest Binary in Classical Arabic Literature	2025	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3879	115	48	Abū Muḥammad Usāma b. Ibrāhīm (Cairo: Dār al-Farūq al-Ḥadītha, 2008), 10:439 [32492]. 518 • Jonny LawRence Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 33 (2025) Report on Serious Laughter • 519 moral absolutism can jar against the comedy explicit in the racy poems and stories that follow the Meccan poet in his playful, yet potentially dangerous, dalliances with pilgrims at the Kaʿba. In her presentation, “Early Islamic Contributions to the Serio-Comic: A David Narrative in a Ninth-century Hadith Collection as Case Study,” Madeline Wyse (University of California, Berkeley) turned our focus from the Prophet Muḥammad back to the Prophet Dāwūd (David), reading a series of ḥadīths from Ibn Abī Shayba’s al-Kitāb al-Muṣannaf fī al-aḥādīth wa-l-āthār.2 A scholar of both Rabbinic Judaism and early Islam, Wyse set the normative memory of Dāwūd in the Islamic imagination as an icon of repentance, following God’s discussion of Dāwūd’s faulty adjudication between two men and later repentance in Qurʾān 38:21–25, against earlier prototypical representations of this Prophet-King.	cache/alusur-14162.pdf	txt/alusur-14162.txt