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...

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1. Verfasser: Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Gelder, G. J. H. van (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Arabic
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Handbook of Oriental studies. Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 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:1 online resource (388 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9004446354
9789004446359
ISSN:0169-9423 ;

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