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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.
Van Pelt Library DS38.4.A2 M83513 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860, author.
- Series:
- Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; Section 1, v. 150.
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 150
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poets, Arab.
- Murder victims.
- Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Islamic Empire.
- Murder victims--Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Poets, Arab--Islamic Empire--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Early works.
- Physical Description:
- 388 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Facing page translation of Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn with Arabic on the versos and English on the rectos.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contains:
- Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860. Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn.
- Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860. Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn. English.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860, Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets
- ISBN:
- 9789004446342
- 9004446346
- OCLC:
- 1226961982
- Publisher Number:
- 99987078281
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