Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- And Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets

Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated

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388 Seiten, Hardcover

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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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
• ISBN: 9789004446342
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2021
• Größe: 234 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill
• Herausgegeben von: Geert Jan van Gelder
• Übersetzung: Geert Jan van Gelder