Al-Maqrīzī's Al-Ḫabar ʿan Al-Basar: Vol. V, Sections 1-2: The Arab Thieves

by Peter Webb

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 outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī arranged biographies of ten outlaws...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004386947
• ISBN13: 9789004386945
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"