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Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets - Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated (Hardcover)
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Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets - Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated (Hardcover)
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 150
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Muhammad ibn Habib (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 Bilqis,
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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