Prominent murder victims of the pre- and early Islamic periods including the names of murdered poets
By: by Muḥammad Ibn Ḥabīb (d. AH 245/AD 860) ; introduced, edited, translated from the Arabic, and annotated by Geert Jan van Gelder
Contributors: Gelder, G. J. H. van, editor, translator; Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860; Muḥammad ibn Ḥabīb, -860
Series: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section one, The Near and Middle East -- volume 150; Handbook of Oriental studies -- v. 150.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789004446342; 9789004446359
Subjects: Biography; Early works to 1800; Murder victims; Arab Poets
Description: "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 accounts 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 murders 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Facing page translation of Asmāʼ al-mughtālīn with Arabic on the versos and English on the rectos.