Al-Maqrizi's al-Habar 'an al-Basar. / volume V, section 6, : the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths / / Mayte Penelas.

• Superior document: Bibliotheca Maqriziana ; 7
• VerfasserIn: Penelas, Mayte,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʿIbar , from which al-Maqrīzī derived m...

Table of Contents

• List of Plates and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Study of the Arab Thieves
• 1 Outlaw Literature
• 2 “Arab Thieves”: Establishing a Category 2.1 Ṣuʿlūk/Ṣaʿālīk 2.2 Fātik/Futtāk 2.3 Liṣṣ/Luṣūṣ 2.4 The Runners 2.5 The Arab Ravens 2.6 Lions and Wolves 2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions
• 3 Thieves and Arab History 3.1 Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century 3.2 Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century 3.3 The Ayyubid- and Mamluk-Eras 3.4 al-Maqrīzī and His Luṣūṣ al-ʿArab
• 4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī’s Own World
• 5 Al-Maqrīzī’s Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure 5.1 The Thieves 5.2 Narrative Structure 5.3 The Book
• 6 The Sources 6.1 Dictionaries and the List of ‘Arab Thieves’ 6.2 Al-Maqrīzī’s Sources: Overview 6.3 Al-Maqrīzī’s Copying Style: Case Studies 6.4 Al-Maqrīzī and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections 6.5 Sources: Conclusions
• 7 Concluding Remarks
• Plates
• Part 2 Critical Edition and Translation
• The Holograph
• The Translation
• Abbreviations and Symbols
• Text and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-baṣar , vol.  V , Sections 1–2: the Arab Thieves
• Section on the Arabs’ Religions before Islam
• Section on the Arab Hussies
• Section on the Arab Thieves ʿAmr of the Dog Taʾabbaṭa Šarran Al-Šanfará Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Saʿdī Al-Muntašir Awfá b. Maṭar al-Māzinī ʿAmr b. Barrāqah Al-Uḥaymir Niẓām Yazīd
• Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. I a–b , 1 a –3 b , 4* a–b , 4 a –9 b , 10* a–b , 10 a –15 b.