Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets

"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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1. Verfasser: Ibn-Ḥabīb, Muḥammad (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gelder, Geert Jan van (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Leiden, Boston Brill 2021
Schriftenreihe:Handbook of Oriental studies The Near and Middle East ; volume 150 Section 1, volume 150
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:Paralleltitel in arabischer Sprache und Schrift
Includes bibliographical references (pages: 347-361) and indexes
Beschreibung:388 Seiten
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ISBN:9789004446342
978-90-04-44634-2