Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar 'an al-bašar. Volume V, sections 1-2, The Arab thieves /

In The Arab Thieves , Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an out...

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Main Author: Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, 1364-1442 (Author)

Other Authors: Webb, Peter, 1978- (Editor, Translator)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Arabic

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Series: Bibliotheca Maqriziana 06.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004386341.

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Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī, > 1364-1442. > Khabar ʻan al-bashar fī ansāb al-ʻArab wa-nasab Sayyid al-Bashar.

Outlaws > Arabian Peninsula > Biography > Early works to 1800.

Arabic literature > To 622 > History and criticism.