Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets : : introduced, edited, translated from the Arabic, and annotated / / Muhammad ibn Habib.
"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 S...
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| Superior document: | Handbook of Oriental Studies ; Volume 150 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of oriental studies ;
Volume 150. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 pages). |
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| 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"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9004446354 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Muhammad ibn Habib. |