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Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets
- Title
- Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets / by Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860) ; introduced, edited, translated from the Arabic, and annotated by Geert Jan van Gelder.
- Author
- Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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- Additional Authors
- Gelder, G. J. H. van
- Description
- 388 pages; 25 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 150
- Uniform Title
- Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 150.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-361) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Facing page translation of Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn with Arabic on the versos and English on the rectos.
- Contents
- Preface -- Introduction -- The Author -- Sources on Ibn Ḥabīb -- Works -- The Book on Prominent Murder Victims and Poets Who Were Killed -- Editions -- The Translation -- Transliteration -- Abbreviations in the English -- Abbreviations in the Notes to the Arabic Text -- Text and Translation -- Bibliography -- List of Sections -- Index of Persons, Tribes, Nations, Groups -- Geographical Index -- Index of Rhymes ....
- Call Number
- JFE 21-8977
- ISBN
- 9789004446342
- 9004446346
- LCCN
- 2020052769
- 40030405193
- OCLC
- 1226961982
- Author
- Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860, author.
- Title
- Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets / by Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860) ; introduced, edited, translated from the Arabic, and annotated by Geert Jan van Gelder.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; volume 150Handbook of Oriental studies. Section 1, Near and Middle East (2014) ; v. 150.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-361) and indexes.
- Language
- Facing page translation of Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn with Arabic on the versos and English on the rectos.
- Added Author
- Gelder, G. J. H. van, editor, translator.Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860. Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn.Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860. Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn. English.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860, Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2021. 9789004446359 (DLC) 2020052770
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030405193
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-8977