Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets / by Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860) ; introduced, edited, translated from the Arabic, and annotated by Geert Jan van Gelder.
"Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his Prominent Murder Victims many accounts of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqīs, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Series: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ;
v. 150. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his Prominent Murder Victims many accounts of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqīs, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba, came to power, to the murders ordered by viziers or caliphs in the early Islamic centuries. A lengthy appendix deals with poets from pre- and early Islamic times who were killed. The stories are entertaining as well as informative. Strikingly, the author refrains from explicit moralising. The present book offers a richly annotated English translation together with an improved Arabic text and indexes of persons, places, and rhymes"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (388 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004446354 9789004446359 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9423 ; |