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Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets
Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860)
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Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated
出版BRILL, 2021-01-11
主題History / Asia / GeneralHistory / Middle East / GeneralLiterary Collections / Ancient & ClassicalPoetry / Ancient & Classical
ISBN90044463549789004446359
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=uI8cEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.