Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar : Vol. V, Section 6: The Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Franks, and the Goths /

Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar : Vol. V, Section 6: The Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Franks, and the Goths /

This volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn's Kitāb al-ʿIbar , from which al-Maqrīzī derived...

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Other Authors: Penelas, Mayte (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana ; 7.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004405868.

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Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, > 1364-1442.
Historians > Egypt > Biography.

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Call Number: DT76.9.M37

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Plates and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Study of the Arab Thieves
  • 1 Outlaw Literature
  • 2 "Arab Thieves": Establishing a Category 2.1 Ṣuʿlūk/Ṣaʿālīk 2.2 Fātik/Futtāk 2.3 Liṣṣ/Luṣūṣ 2.4 The Runners 2.5 The Arab Ravens 2.6 Lions and Wolves 2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions
  • 3 Thieves and Arab History 3.1 Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century 3.2 Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century 3.3 The Ayyubid- and Mamluk-Eras 3.4 al-Maqrīzī and His Luṣūṣ al-ʿArab
  • 4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī's Own World
  • 5 Al-Maqrīzī's Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure 5.1 The Thieves 5.2 Narrative Structure 5.3 The Book
  • 6 The Sources 6.1 Dictionaries and the List of 'Arab Thieves' 6.2 Al-Maqrīzī's Sources: Overview 6.3 Al-Maqrīzī's Copying Style: Case Studies 6.4 Al-Maqrīzī and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections 6.5 Sources: Conclusions
  • 7 Concluding Remarks
  • Plates
  • Part 2 Critical Edition and Translation
  • The Holograph
  • The Translation
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Text and Translation of al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-baṣar , vol.  V , Sections 1-2: the Arab Thieves
  • Section on the Arabs' Religions before Islam
  • Section on the Arab Hussies
  • Section on the Arab Thieves ʿAmr of the Dog Taʾabbaṭa Šarran Al-Šanfará Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Saʿdī Al-Muntašir Awfá b. Maṭar al-Māzinī ʿAmr b. Barrāqah Al-Uḥaymir Niẓām Yazīd
  • Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. I a-b , 1 a -3 b , 4* a-b , 4 a -9 b , 10* a-b , 10 a -15 b.