Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets : Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the Near and Middle East)

ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860), Muḥammad/ Gelder, Geert Jan (EDT)

Brill（2021/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 388 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004446342
• DDC分類 362.88293092256

Full Description

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.

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