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802541
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b622589
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| Uniform Title
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Khabar ʻan al-bashar fī ansāb al-ʻArab wa-nasab Sayyid al-Bashar.English
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| Main Entry
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Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī,1364-1442
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| Title & Author
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Al-Maqrīzī's al-Ḫabar 'an al-bašar.\ critical edition, annotated translation and study by Peter Webb.
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, [2019]
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| Series Statement
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Bibliotheca Maqriziana,; volume 6
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pages cm
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| ISBN
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9789004386945 (hardback : alk. paper)
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9789004386952 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Outlaw literature -- "Arab thieves" : establishing a category -- Thieves and Arab history -- Contemporary outlaws : criminality in al-Maqrizi's own world -- Al-Maqrizi's manuscript : its conceptual, narrative and physical structure -- The sources -- Concluding remarks -- The holograph -- The translation -- The Arabs' religions before Islam -- The Arab hussies -- The Arab thieves -- 'Amr of the dog -- Ta'abbata Sarran -- Al-Sanfara -- Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Sa'di -- Al-Muntasir -- Awfa b. Matar al-Mazini -- 'Amr b. Barraqah -- Al-Uhaymir -- Nizam -- Yazid.
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| Abstract
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"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-Maqrizi arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on 'Arab Thieves' in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrizi's text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrizi used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history"--
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Maqrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī,1364-1442., Khabar ʻan al-bashar fī ansāb al-ʻArab wa-nasab Sayyid al-Bashar.
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Arabic literature-- 1258-1800-- History and criticism.
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Arabic literature-- To 622-- History and criticism.
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Outlaws in literature.
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Outlaws-- Arabian Peninsula, Biography, Early works to 1800.
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Tales-- Arabian Peninsula-- History and criticism.
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Arabian Peninsula, Historiography.
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Arabian Peninsula, History, To 622, Early works to 1800.
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| Dewey Classification
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892.7/09001
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| LC Classification
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DS231.M3613 2019
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| Added Entry
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Webb, Peter,1978-
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| Parallel Title
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Arab thieves
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