| Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- And Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets: Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, Contributor(s): Ibn Ḥabīb (D Ah 245, Ad 860), Mu (Author), Van Gelder, Geert Jan (Editor), Van Gelder, Geert Jan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 9004446346 ISBN-13: 9789004446342 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $150.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - General - History | Middle East - General - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval |
| Physical Information: 396 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 stories 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 assassinations 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. |