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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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Preface Introduction  1 The Author  2 Sources on Ibn Ḥabīb  3 Works  4 The Book on Prominent Murder Victims and Poets Who Were Killed  5 Editions  6 The Translation  7 Transliteration  8 Abbreviations in the English  9 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 فهرست القوافي

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

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    A Hardback by Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860), Geert Jan van Gelder

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      Publisher: Brill
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/01/2021
      ISBN13: 9789004446342, 978-9004446342
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Introduction  1 The Author  2 Sources on Ibn Ḥabīb  3 Works  4 The Book on Prominent Murder Victims and Poets Who Were Killed  5 Editions  6 The Translation  7 Transliteration  8 Abbreviations in the English  9 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 فهرست القوافي

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