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Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- And Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets: Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic,

Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- And Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets: Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic,

Van Gelder, Geert Jan
Van Gelder, Geert Jan
Ibn &#7716ab&#299b (D Ah 245/Ad 860), Muḥammad

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004759042
ISBN13: 9789004759046
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 5 2026
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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 stories 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 assassinations 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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