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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 S...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Arabic |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ;
v. 150. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (388 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9004446354 9789004446359 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9423 ; |