Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar 'an al-bašar.

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.

Subjects:

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.
Outlaws in literature.
Tales > Arabian Peninsula > History and criticism.
Arabic literature > 1258-1800 > History and criticism.
Arabian Peninsula > History > To 622 > Early works to 1800.
Arabian Peninsula > Historiography.

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Call Number: DS231

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Study of the Arab Thieves
  • Outlaw Literature
  • 'Arab Thieves': Establishing a Category
  • Thieves and Arab History
  • Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī's Own World
  • Al-Maqrīzī's Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure
  • The Sources
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Plates
  • Critical Edition and Translation
  • The Holograph
  • The Translation
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Text and Translation of al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar ‮كتاب الخبر عن البشر‬‎ The History of Mankind Volume V, sections 1-2 The Arab Thieves
  • Section on the Arabs' religions before Islam
  • Section on the Arab Hussies
  • Section on the Arab Thieves
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. Ia-b, 1a-3b, 4*a-b, 4a-9b, 10*a-b, 10a-15b
  • Bibliotheca Maqriziana Titles Published.